Changelog

in development

Added

Move git clone to user_home/.st2packs #5845
Error on st2ctl status when running in Kubernetes. #5851 Contributed by @mamercad
Continue introducing pants to improve DX (Developer Experience) working on StackStorm, improve our security posture, and improve CI reliability thanks in part to pants’ use of PEX lockfiles. This is not a user-facing addition. #5778 #5789 #5817 #5795 #5830 #5833 #5834 #5841 #5840 #5838 #5842 #5837 #5849 #5850 #5846 #5853 #5848 #5847 #5858 #5857 #5860 #5868 #5871 #5864 #5874 #5884 #5893 #5891 #5890 #5898 #5901 #5906 #5899 #5907 #5909 #5922 #5926 #5927 #5925 #5928 #5929 #5930 #5931 #5932 #5948 #5949 #5950 Contributed by @cognifloyd
Added a joint index to solve the problem of slow mongo queries for scheduled executions. #5805
Added publisher to ActionAlias to enable streaming ActionAlias create/update/delete events. #5763 Contributed by @ubaumann
Expose environment variable ST2_ACTION_DEBUG to all StackStorm actions. Contributed by @maxfactor1

3.8.0 - November 18, 2022

Fixed

Fix redis SSL problems with sentinel #5660
Fix a bug in the pack config loader so that objects covered by an patternProperties schema or arrays using additionalItems schema(s) can use encrypted datastore keys and have their default values applied correctly. #5321

Contributed by @cognifloyd
Fixed st2client/st2client/base.py file to check for http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables for both lower and upper cases.

Contributed by @S-T-A-R-L-O-R-D
Fixed a bug where calling ‘get_by_name’ on client for getting key details was not returning any results despite key being stored. #5677

Contributed by @bharath-orchestral
Fixed st2client/st2client/base.py file to use https_proxy``(not ``http_proxy) to check HTTPS_PROXY environment variables.

Contributed by @wfgydbu
Fixed schema utils to more reliably handle schemas that define nested arrays (object-array-object-array-string) as discovered in some of the ansible installer RBAC tests (see #5684). This includes a test that reproduced the error so we don’t hit this again. #5685
Fixed eventlet monkey patching so more of the unit tests work under pytest. #5689
Fix and reenable prance-based openapi spec validation, but make our custom x-api-model validation optional as the spec is out-of-date. #5709 Contributed by @cognifloyd
Fixed generation of st2.conf.sample to show correct syntax for [sensorcontainer].partition_provider (space separated key:value pairs). #5710 Contributed by @cognifloyd
Fix access to key-value pairs in workflow and action execution where RBAC rules did not get applied #5764

Contributed by @m4dcoder
Add backward compatibility to secret masking introduced in #5319 to prevent security-relative issues. Migration to the new schema is required to take advantage of the full output schema validation. #5783

Contributed by @m4dcoder

Added

Added graceful shutdown for workflow engine. #5463 Contributed by @khushboobhatia01
Add ST2_USE_DEBUGGER env var as alternative to the --use-debugger cli flag. #5675 Contributed by @cognifloyd
Added purging of old tokens. #5679 Contributed by Amanda McGuinness (@amanda11 intive)
Begin introducing pants to improve DX (Developer Experience) working on StackStorm, improve our security posture, and improve CI reliability thanks in part to pants’ use of PEX lockfiles. This is not a user-facing addition. #5713 #5724 #5726 #5725 #5732 #5733 #5737 #5738 #5758 #5751 #5774 #5776 #5777 #5782 Contributed by @cognifloyd
Added querytype parameter to linux.dig action to allow specifying the dig ‘type’ parameter. Fixes #5772

Contributed by @AmbiguousYeoman

Changed

BREAKING CHANGE for anyone that uses output_schema, which is disabled by default. If you have [system].validate_output_schema = True in st2.conf AND you have added output_schema to any of your packs, then you must update your action metadata.

output_schema must be a full jsonschema now. If a schema is not well-formed, we ignore it. Now, output can be types other than object such as list, bool, int, etc. This also means that all of an action’s output can be masked as a secret.

To get the same behavior, you’ll need to update your output schema. For example, this schema:
```
output_schema:
  property1:
    type: bool
  property2:
    type: str
```
should be updated like this:
```
output_schema:
  type: object
  properties:
    property1:
      type: bool
    property2:
      type: str
  additionalProperties: false
```
#5319

Contributed by @cognifloyd
Changed the X-XSS-Protection HTTP header from 1; mode=block to 0 in the conf/nginx/st2.conf to align with the OWASP security standards. #5298

Contributed by @LiamRiddell
Use PEP 440 direct reference requirements instead of legacy PIP VCS requirements. Now, our *.requirements.txt files use package-name@ git+https://url@version ; markers instead of git+https://url@version#egg=package-name ; markers. #5673 Contributed by @cognifloyd
Move from udatetime to ciso8601 for date functionality ahead of supporting python3.9 #5692 Contributed by Amanda McGuinness (@amanda11 intive)
Refactor tests to use python imports to identify test fixtures. #5699 #5702 #5703 #5704 #5705 #5706 Contributed by @cognifloyd
Refactor st2-generate-schemas so that logic is in an importable module. #5708 Contributed by @cognifloyd

Removed

Removed st2exporter service. It is unmaintained and does not get installed. It was originally meant to help with analytics by exporting executions as json files that could be imported into something like elasticsearch. Our code is now instrumented to make a wider variety of stats available to metrics drivers. #5676 Contributed by @cognifloyd

3.7.0 - May 05, 2022

Added

Added st2 API get action parameters by ref. #5509

API endpoint /api/v1/actions/views/parameters/{action_id} accepts ref_or_id.

Contributed by @DavidMeu
Enable setting ttl for MockDatastoreService. #5468

Contributed by @ytjohn
Added st2 API and CLI command for actions clone operation.

API endpoint /api/v1/actions/{ref_or_id}/clone takes ref_or_id of source action. Request method body takes destination pack and action name. Request method body also takes optional parameter overwrite. overwrite = true in case of destination action already exists and to be overwritten.

CLI command st2 action clone <ref_or_id> <dest_pack> <dest_action> takes source ref_or_id, destination pack name and destination action name as mandatory arguments. In case destination already exists then command takes optional argument -f or --force to overwrite destination action. #5345

Contributed by @mahesh-orch.
Implemented RBAC functionality for existing KEY_VALUE_VIEW, KEY_VALUE_SET, KEY_VALUE_DELETE and new permission types KEY_VALUE_LIST, KEY_VALUE_ALL. RBAC is enabled in the st2.conf file. Access to a key value pair is checked in the KeyValuePair API controller. #5354

Contributed by @m4dcoder and @ashwini-orchestral
Added service deregistration on shutdown of a service. #5396

Contributed by @khushboobhatia01
Added pysocks python package for SOCKS proxy support. #5460

Contributed by @kingsleyadam
Added support for multiple LDAP hosts to st2-auth-ldap. #5535, https://github.com/StackStorm/st2-auth-ldap/pull/100

Contributed by @ktyogurt
Implemented graceful shutdown for action runner. Enabled graceful_shutdown in st2.conf file. #5428

Contributed by @khushboobhatia01
Enhanced ‘search’ operator to allow complex criteria matching on payload items. #5482

Contributed by @erceth
Added cancel/pause/resume requester information to execution context. #5554

Contributed by @khushboobhatia01
Added trigger.headers_lower to webhook trigger payload. This allows rules to match webhook triggers without dealing with the case-sensitive nature of trigger.headers, as triggers.headers_lower providers the same headers, but with the header name lower cased. #5038

Contributed by @Rand01ph
Added support to override enabled parameter of resources. #5506

Contributed by Amanda McGuinness (@amanda11 Intive)
Add new api.auth_cookie_secure and api.auth_cookie_same_site config options which specify values which are set for secure and SameSite attribute for the auth cookie we set when authenticating via token / api key in query parameter value (e.g. via st2web).

For security reasons, api.auth_cookie_secure defaults to True. This should only be changed to False if you have a valid reason to not run StackStorm behind HTTPs proxy.

Default value for api.auth_cookie_same_site is lax. If you want to disable this functionality so it behaves the same as in the previous releases, you can set that option to None.

#5248

Contributed by @Kami.
Add new st2 action-alias test <message string> CLI command which allows users to easily test action alias matching and result formatting.

This command will first try to find a matching alias (same as st2 action-alias match command) and if a match is found, trigger an execution (same as st2 action-alias execute command) and format the execution result.

This means it uses exactly the same flow as commands on chat, but the interaction avoids chat and hubot which should make testing and developing aliases easier and faster. #5143

#5143

Contributed by @Kami.
Add new credentials.basic_auth = username:password CLI configuration option.

This argument allows client to use additional set of basic auth credentials when talking to the StackStorm API endpoints (api, auth, stream) - that is, in addition to the token / api key native StackStorm auth.

This allows for simple basic auth based multi factor authentication implementation for installations which don’t utilize SSO.

#5152

Contributed by @Kami.
Add new audit message when a user has decrypted a key whether manually in the container (st2 key get [] –decrypt) or through a workflow with a defined config. #5594 Contributed by @dmork123
Added garbage collection for rule_enforcement and trace models #5596/5602 Contributed by Amanda McGuinness (@amanda11 intive)
Added garbage collection for workflow execution and task execution objects #4924 Contributed by @srimandaleeka01 and @amanda11

Changed

Minor updates for RockyLinux. #5552

Contributed by Amanda McGuinness (@amanda11 intive)
Bump black to v22.3.0 - This is used internally to reformat our python code. #5606
Updated paramiko version to 2.10.3 to add support for more key verification algorithms. #5600

Fixed

Fix deserialization bug in st2 API for url encoded payloads. #5536

Contributed by @sravs-dev
Fix issue of WinRM parameter passing fails for larger scripts.#5538

Contributed by @ashwini-orchestral
Fix Type error for time_diff critera comparison. convert the timediff value as float to match timedelta.total_seconds() return. #5462

Contributed by @blackstrip
Fix issue with pack option not working when running policy list cli #5534

Contributed by @momokuri-3
Fix exception thrown if action parameter contains {{ or {% and no closing jinja characters. #5556

contributed by @guzzijones12
Link shutdown routine and sigterm handler to main thread #5555

Contributed by @khushboobhatia01
Change compound index for ActionExecutionDB to improve query performance #5568

Contributed by @khushboobhatia01
Fix build issue due to MarkUpSafe 2.1.0 removing soft_unicode

Contributed by Amanda McGuinness (@amanda11 intive) #5581
Fixed regression caused by #5358. Use string lock name instead of object ID. #5484

Contributed by @khushboobhatia01
Fix st2-self-check script reporting falsey success when the nested workflows runs failed. #5487
Fix actions from the contrib/linux pack that fail on CentOS-8 but work on other operating systems and distributions. (bug fix) #4999 #5004

Reported by @blag and @dove-young contributed by @winem.
Use byte type lock name which is supported by all tooz drivers. #5529

Contributed by @khushboobhatia01
Fixed issue where pack index searches are ignoring no_proxy #5497

Contributed by @minsis
Fixed trigger references emitted by linux.file_watch.line. #5467

Prior to this patch multiple files could be watched but the rule reference of last registered file would be used for all trigger emissions causing rule enforcement to fail. References are now tracked on a per file basis and used in trigger emissions.

Contributed by @nzlosh
Downgrade tenacity as tooz dependency on tenacity has always been < 7.0.0 #5607

Contributed by @khushboobhatia01
Pin typing-extensions<4.2 (used indirectly by st2client) to maintain python 3.6 support. #5638

3.6.0 - October 29, 2021

Added

Added possibility to add new values to the KV store via CLI without leaking them to the shell history. #5164
st2.conf is now the only place to configure ports for st2api, st2auth, and st2stream.

We replaced the static .socket sytemd units in deb and rpm packages with a python-based generator for the st2api, st2auth, and st2stream services. The generators will get <ip>:<port> from st2.conf to create the .socket files dynamically. #5286 and st2-packages#706

Contributed by @nzlosh

Changed

Modified action delete API to delete action files from disk along with backward compatibility.

From CLI st2 action delete <pack>.<action> will delete only action database entry. From CLI st2 action delete --remove-files <pack>.<action> or st2 action delete -r <pack>.<action> will delete action database entry along with files from disk.

API action DELETE method with {"remove_files": true} argument in json body will remove database entry of action along with files from disk. API action DELETE method with {"remove_files": false} or no additional argument in json body will remove only action database entry. #5304, #5351, #5360

Contributed by @mahesh-orch.
Removed –python3 deprecated flag from st2client. #5305

Contributed by Amanda McGuinness (@amanda11 Ammeon Solutions)

Contributed by @blag.
Fixed __init__.py files to use double quotes to better align with black linting #5299

Contributed by @blag.
Reduced minimum TTL on garbage collection for action executions and trigger instances from 7 days to 1 day. #5287

Contributed by @ericreeves.
update db connect mongo connection test - isMaster MongoDB command depreciated, switch to ping #5302, #5341

Contributed by @lukepatrick
Actionrunner worker shutdown should stop Kombu consumer thread. #5338

Contributed by @khushboobhatia01
Move to using Jinja sandboxed environment #5359

Contributed by Amanda McGuinness (@amanda11 Ammeon Solutions)
Pinned python module networkx to versions between 2.5.1(included) and 2.6(excluded) because Python v3.6 support was dropped in v2.6. Also pinned decorator==4.4.2 (dependency of networkx<2.6) to work around missing python 3.8 classifiers on decorator’s wheel. #5376

Contributed by @nzlosh
Add new --enable-profiler flag to all the servies. This flag enables cProfiler based profiler for the service in question and dumps the profiling data to a file on process exit.

This functionality should never be used in production, but only in development environments or similar when profiling code. #5199

Contributed by @Kami.
Add new --enable-eventlet-blocking-detection flag to all the servies. This flag enables eventlet long operation / blocked main loop logic which throws an exception if a particular code blocks longer than a specific duration in seconds.

This functionality should never be used in production, but only in development environments or similar when debugging code. #5199
Silence pylint about dev/debugging utility (tools/direct_queue_publisher.py) that uses pika because kombu doesn’t support what it does. If anyone uses that utility, they have to install pika manually. #5380
Fixed version of cffi as changes in 1.15.0 meant that it attempted to load libffi.so.8. #5390

Contributed by @amanda11, Ammeon Solutions
Updated Bash installer to install latest RabbitMQ version rather than out-dated version available in OS distributions.

Contributed by @amanda11, Ammeon Solutions

Fixed

Correct error reported when encrypted key value is reported, and another key value parameter that requires conversion is present. #5328 Contributed by @amanda11, Ammeon Solutions
Make update_executions() atomic by protecting the update with a coordination lock. Actions, like workflows, may have multiple concurrent updates to their execution state. This makes those updates safer, which should make the execution status more reliable. #5358

Contributed by @khushboobhatia01
Fix “not iterable” error for output_schema handling. If a schema is not well-formed, we ignore it. Also, if action output is anything other than a JSON object, we do not try to process it any more. output_schema will change in a future release to support non-object output. #5309

Contributed by @guzzijones
core.inject_trigger: resolve trigger payload shadowing by deprecating trigger param in favor of trigger_name. trigger param is still available for backwards compatibility, but will be removed in a future release. #5335 and #5383

Contributed by @mjtice

3.5.0 - June 23, 2021

Added

Added web header settings for additional security hardening to nginx.conf: X-Frame-Options, Strict-Transport-Security, X-XSS-Protection and server-tokens. #5183

Contributed by @shital.
Added support for limit and offset argument to the list_values data store service method (#5097 and #5171).

Contributed by @anirudhbagri.
Various additional metrics have been added to the action runner service to provide for better operational visibility. (improvement) #4846

Contributed by @Kami.
Added sensor model to list of JSON schemas auto-generated by make schemasgen that can be used by development tools to validate pack contents. (improvement)
Added the command line utility st2-validate-pack that can be used by pack developers to validate pack contents. (improvement)
Fix a bug in the API and CLI code which would prevent users from being able to retrieve resources which contain non-ascii (utf-8) characters in the names / references. (bug fix) #5189

Contributed by @Kami.
Fix a bug in the API router code and make sure we return correct and user-friendly error to the user in case we fail to parse the request URL / path because it contains invalid or incorrectly URL encoded data.

Previously such errors weren’t handled correctly which meant original exception with a stack trace got propagated to the user. (bug fix) #5189

Contributed by @Kami.
Make redis the default coordinator backend.
Fix a bug in the pack config loader so that objects covered by an additionalProperties schema can use encrypted datastore keys and have their default values applied correctly. #5225

Contributed by @cognifloyd.
Add new database.compressors and database.zlib_compression_level config option which specifies compression algorithms client supports for network / transport level compression when talking to MongoDB.

Actual compression algorithm used will be then decided by the server and depends on the algorithms which are supported by the server + client.

Possible / valid values include: zstd, zlib. Keep in mind that zstandard (zstd) is only supported by MongoDB >= 4.2.

Our official Debian and RPM packages bundle zstandard dependency by default which means setting this value to zstd should work out of the box as long as the server runs MongoDB >= 4.2. #5177

Contributed by @Kami.
Add support for compressing the payloads which are sent over the message bus. Compression is disabled by default and user can enable it by setting messaging.compression config option to one of the following values: zstd, lzma, bz2, gzip.

In most cases we recommend using zstd (zstandard) since it offers best trade off between compression ratio and number of CPU cycles spent for compression and compression.

How this will affect the deployment and throughput is very much user specific (workflow and resources available). It may make sense to enable it when generic action trigger is enabled and when working with executions with large textual results. #5241

Contributed by @Kami.
Mask secrets in output of an action execution in the API if the action has an output schema defined and one or more output parameters are marked as secret. #5250

Contributed by @mahesh-orch.

Changed

All the code has been refactored using black and black style is automatically enforced and required for all the new code. (#5156)

Contributed by @Kami.
Default nginx config (conf/nginx/st2.conf) which is used by the installer and Docker images has been updated to only support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.3 (support for TLS v1.0 and v1.1 has been removed).

Keep in mind that TLS v1.3 will only be used when nginx is running on more recent distros where nginx is compiled against OpenSSL v1.1.1 which supports TLS 1.3. #5183 #5216

Contributed by @Kami and @shital.
Add new -x argument to the st2 execution get command which allows result field to be excluded from the output. (improvement) #4846
Update st2 execution get <id> command to also display execution log attribute which includes execution state transition information.

By default end_timestamp attribute and duration attribute displayed in the command output only include the time it took action runner to finish running actual action, but it doesn’t include the time it it takes action runner container to fully finish running the execution - this includes persisting execution result in the database.

For actions which return large results, there could be a substantial discrepancy - e.g. action itself could finish in 0.5 seconds, but writing data to the database could take additional 5 seconds after the action code itself was executed.

For all purposes until the execution result is persisted to the database, execution is not considered as finished.

While writing result to the database action runner is also consuming CPU cycles since serialization of large results is a CPU intensive task.

This means that “elapsed” attribute and start_timestamp + end_timestamp will make it look like actual action completed in 0.5 seconds, but in reality it took 5.5 seconds (0.5 + 5 seconds).

Log attribute can be used to determine actual duration of the execution (from start to finish). (improvement) #4846

Contributed by @Kami.
Various internal improvements (reducing number of DB queries, speeding up YAML parsing, using DB object cache, etc.) which should speed up pack action registration between 15-30%. This is especially pronounced with packs which have a lot of actions (e.g. aws one). (improvement) #4846

Contributed by @Kami.
Underlying database field type and storage format for the Execution, LiveAction, WorkflowExecutionDB, TaskExecutionDB and TriggerInstanceDB database models has changed.

This new format is much faster and efficient than the previous one. Users with larger executions (executions with larger results) should see the biggest improvements, but the change also scales down so there should also be improvements when reading and writing executions with small and medium sized results.

Our micro and end to benchmarks have shown improvements up to 15-20x for write path (storing model in the database) and up to 10x for the read path.

To put things into perspective - with previous version, running a Python runner action which returns 8 MB result would take around ~18 seconds total, but with this new storage format, it takes around 2 seconds (in this context, duration means the from the time the execution was scheduled to the time the execution model and result was written and available in the database).

The difference is even larger when working with Orquesta workflows.

Overall performance improvement doesn’t just mean large decrease in those operation timings, but also large overall reduction of CPU usage - previously serializing large results was a CPU intensive time since it included tons of conversions and transformations back and forth.

The new format is also around 10-20% more storage efficient which means that it should allows for larger model values (MongoDB document size limit is 16 MB).

The actual change should be fully opaque and transparent to the end users - it’s purely a field storage implementation detail and the code takes care of automatically handling both formats when working with those object.

Same field data storage optimizations have also been applied to workflow related database models which should result in the same performance improvements for Orquesta workflows which pass larger data sets / execution results around.

Trigger instance payload field has also been updated to use this new field type which should result in lower CPU utilization and better throughput of rules engine service when working with triggers with larger payloads.

This should address a long standing issue where StackStorm was reported to be slow and CPU inefficient with handling large executions.

If you want to migrate existing database objects to utilize the new type, you can use st2common/bin/migrations/v3.5/st2-migrate-db-dict-field-values migration script. (improvement) #4846

Contributed by @Kami.
Add new result_size field to the ActionExecutionDB model. This field will only be populated for executions which utilize new field storage format.

It holds the size of serialzed execution result field in bytes. This field will allow us to implement more efficient execution result retrieval and provide better UX since we will be able to avoid loading execution results in the WebUI for executions with very large results (which cause browser to freeze). (improvement) #4846

Contributed by @Kami.
Add new /v1/executions/<id>/result[?download=1&compress=1&pretty_format=1] API endpoint which can be used used to retrieve or download raw execution result as (compressed) JSON file.

This endpoint will primarily be used by st2web when executions produce very large results so we can avoid loading, parsing and formatting those very large results as JSON in the browser which freezes the browser window / tab. (improvement) #4846

Contributed by @Kami.
Update jinja2 dependency to the latest stable version (2.11.3). #5195
Update pyyaml dependency to the latest stable version (5.4). #5207
Update various dependencies to latest stable versions (bcrypt, appscheduler, pytz, python-dateutil, psutil, passlib, gunicorn, flex, cryptography. eventlet, greenlet, webob , mongoengine, pymongo, requests, pyyaml, kombu, amqp, python-ldap).

#5215, https://github.com/StackStorm/st2-auth-ldap/pull/94

Contributed by @Kami.
Update code and dependencies so it supports Python 3.8 and Mongo DB 4.4 #5177

Contributed by @nzloshm @winem @Kami.
StackStorm Web UI (st2web) has been updated to not render and display execution results larger than 200 KB directly in the history panel in the right side bar by default anymore. Instead a link to view or download the raw result is displayed.

Execution result widget was never optimized to display very large results (especially for executions which return large nested dictionaries) so it would freeze and hang the whole browser tab / window when trying to render / display large results.

If for some reason you want to revert to the old behavior (this is almost never a good idea since it will cause browser to freeze when trying to display large results), you can do that by setting max_execution_result_size_for_render option in the config to a very large value (e.g. max_execution_result_size_for_render: 16 * 1024 * 1024).

https://github.com/StackStorm/st2web/pull/868

Contributed by @Kami.
Some of the config option registration code has been refactored to ignore “option already registered” errors. That was done as a work around for an occasional race in the tests and also to make all of the config option registration code expose the same consistent API. #5234

Contributed by @Kami.
Update pyywinrm dependency to the latest stable version (0.4.1). #5212

Contributed by @chadpatt .
Monkey patch on st2stream earlier in flow #5240

Contributed by Amanda McGuinness (@amanda11 Ammeon Solutions)
Support % in CLI arguments by reading the ConfigParser() arguments with raw=True.

This removes support for ‘%’ interpolations on the configuration arguments.

See https://docs.python.org/3.8/library/configparser.html#configparser.ConfigParser.get for further details. #5253

Contributed by @winem.
Remove duplicate host header in the nginx config for the auth endpoint.
Update orquesta to v1.4.0.

Improvements

CLI has been updated to use or orjson when parsing API response and C version of the YAML safe dumper when formatting execution result for display. This should result in speed up when displaying execution result (st2 execution get, etc.) for executions with large results.

When testing it locally, the difference for execution with 8 MB result was 18 seconds vs ~6 seconds. (improvement) #4846

Contributed by @Kami.
Update various Jinja functiona to utilize C version of YAML safe_{load,dump} functions and orjson for better performance. (improvement) #4846

Contributed by @Kami.
For performance reasons, use udatetime library for parsing ISO8601 / RFC3339 date strings where possible. (improvement) #4846

Contributed by @Kami.
Speed up service start up time by speeding up runners registration on service start up by re-using existing stevedore ExtensionManager instance instead of instantiating new DriverManager instance per extension which is not necessary and it’s slow since it requires disk / pkg resources scan for each extension. (improvement) #5198

Contributed by @Kami.
Add new ?max_result_size query parameter filter to the GET /v1/executiond/<id> API endpoint.

This query parameter allows clients to implement conditional execution result retrieval and only retrieve the result field if it’s smaller than the provided value.

This comes handy in the various client scenarios (such as st2web) where we don’t display and render very large results directly since it allows to speed things up and decrease amount of data retrieved and parsed. (improvement) #5197

Contributed by @Kami.
Update default nginx config which is used for proxying API requests and serving static content to only allow HTTP methods which are actually used by the services (get, post, put, delete, options, head).

If a not-allowed method is used, nginx will abort the request early and return 405 status code. #5193

Contributed by @ashwini-orchestral
Update default nginx config which is used for proxying API requests and serving static content to not allow range requests. #5193

Contributed by @ashwini-orchestral
Drop unused python dependencies: prometheus_client, python-gnupg, more-itertools, zipp. #5228

Contributed by @cognifloyd.
Update majority of the “resource get” CLI commands (e.g. st2 execution get, st2 action get, st2 rule get, st2 pack get, st2 apikey get, st2 trace get, st2 key get, st2 webhook get, st2 timer get, etc.) so they allow for retrieval and printing of information for multiple resources using the following notation: st2 <resource> get <id 1> <id 2> <id n>, e.g. st2 action.get pack.show packs.get packs.delete

This change is fully backward compatible when retrieving only a single resource (aka single id is passed to the command).

When retrieving a single source the command will throw and exit with non-zero if a resource is not found, but when retrieving multiple resources, command will just print an error and continue with printing the details of any other found resources. (new feature) #4912

Contributed by @Kami.

Fixed

Refactor spec_loader util to use yaml.load with SafeLoader. (security) Contributed by @ashwini-orchestral
Import ABC from collections.abc for Python 3.10 compatibility. (#5007) Contributed by @tirkarthi
Updated to use virtualenv 20.4.0/PIP20.3.3 and fixate-requirements to work with PIP 20.3.3 #512 Contributed by Amanda McGuinness (@amanda11 Ammeon Solutions)
Fix st2 execution get --with-schema flag. (bug fix) #4846

Contributed by @Kami.
Fix SensorTypeAPI schema to use class_name instead of name since documentation for pack development uses class_name and registrar used to load sensor to database assign class_name to name in the database model. (bug fix)
Updated paramiko version to 2.7.2, to go with updated cryptography to prevent problems with ssh keys on remote actions. #5201

Contributed by Amanda McGuinness (@amanda11 Ammeon Solutions)
Update rpm package metadata and fix Provides section for RHEL / CentOS 8 packages.

In the previous versions, RPM metadata would incorrectly signal that the st2 package provides various Python libraries which it doesn’t (those Python libraries are only used internally for the package local virtual environment).

https://github.com/StackStorm/st2-packages/pull/697

Contributed by @Kami.
Make sure st2common.util.green.shell.run_command() doesn’t leave stray / zombie processes laying around in some command timeout scenarios. #5220

Contributed by @r0m4n-z.
Fix support for skipping notifications for workflow actions. Previously if action metadata specified an empty list for notify parameter value, that would be ignored / not handled correctly for workflow (orquesta, action chain) actions. #5221 #5227

Contributed by @khushboobhatia01.
Clean up to remove unused methods in the action execution concurrency policies. #5268

3.4.1 - March 14, 2021

Added

Service start up code has been updated to log a warning if a non-utf-8 encoding / locale is detected.

Using non-utf-8 locale while working with unicode data will result in various issues so users are strongly recommended to ensure encoding for all the StackStorm service is set to utf-8. (#5182)

Contributed by @Kami.

Changed

Use sudo -E to fix GitHub Actions tests #5187

Contributed by @cognifloyd

Fixed

Properly handle unicode strings in logs #5184

Fix a logging loop when attempting to encode Unicode characters in locales that do not support Unicode characters - CVE-2021-28667.

See https://stackstorm.com/2021/03/10/stackstorm-v3-4-1-security-fix/ for more information.

Contributed by @Kami
Fix SensorTypeAPI schema to use class_name instead of name since documentation for pack development uses class_name and registrar used to load sensor to database assign class_name to name in the database model. (bug fix)
Updated paramiko version to 2.7.2, to go with updated cryptography to prevent problems with ssh keys on remote actions. #5201

Contributed by Amanda McGuinness (@amanda11 Ammeon Solutions)

3.4.0 - March 02, 2021

Added

Added support for GitLab SSH URLs on pack install and download actions. (improvement) #5050 Contributed by @asthLucas
Added st2-rbac-backend pip requirements for RBAC integration. (new feature) #5086 Contributed by @hnanchahal
Added notification support for err-stackstorm. (new feature) #5051
Added st2-auth-ldap pip requirements for LDAP auth integartion. (new feature) #5082 Contributed by @hnanchahal
Added –register-recreate-virtualenvs flag to st2ctl reload to recreate virtualenvs from scratch. (part of upgrade instructions) #5167

Contributed by @winem and @blag

Changed

Updated deprecation warning for python 2 pack installs, following python 2 support removal. #5099 Contributed by @amanda11
Improve the st2-self-check script to echo to stderr and exit if it isn’t run with a ST2_AUTH_TOKEN or ST2_API_KEY environment variable. (improvement) #5068
Added timeout parameter for packs.install action to help with long running installs that exceed the default timeout of 600 sec which is defined by the python_script action runner (improvement) #5084

Contributed by @hnanchahal
Upgraded cryptography version to 3.2 to avoid CVE-2020-25659 (security) #5095
Converted most CI jobs from Travis to GitHub Actions (all except Integration tests).

Contributed by @nmaludy, @winem, and @blag
Updated cryptography dependency to version 3.3.2 to avoid CVE-2020-36242 (security) #5151
Update most of the code in the StackStorm API and services layer to utilize orjson library for serializing and de-serializing json.

That should result in better json serialization and deserialization performance.

The change should be fully backward compatible, only difference is that API JSON responses now won’t be indented using 4 spaces by default (indenting adds unnecessary overhead and if needed, the response can be pretty formatted on the client side using jq or similar). (improvement) #5153

Contributed by @Kami

Fixed

Pin chardet version as newest version was incompatible with pinned requests version #5101 Contributed by @amanda11
Fixed issue were st2tests was not getting installed using pip because no version was specified. Contributed by @anirudhbagri
Added monkey patch fix to st2stream to enable it to work with mongodb via SSL. (bug fix) #5078 #5091
Fix nginx buffering long polling stream to client. Instead of waiting for closed connection wait for final event to be sent to client. (bug fix) #4842 #5042

Contributed by @guzzijones
StackStorm now explicitly decodes pack files as utf-8 instead of implicitly as ascii (bug fix) #5106, #5107
Fix incorrect array parameter value casting when executing action via chatops or using POST /aliasexecution/match_and_execute API endpoint. The code would incorrectly assume the value is always a string, but that may not be the cast - they value could already be a list and in this case we don’t want any casting to be performed. (bug fix) #5141

Contributed by @Kami.
Fix @parameter_name=/path/to/file/foo.json notation in the st2 run command which didn’t work correctly because it didn’t convert read bytes to string / unicode type. (bug fix) #5140

Contributed by @Kami.
Fix broken st2 action-alias execute command and make sure it works correctly. (bug fix) #5138

Contributed by @Kami.

Removed

Removed –python3 pack install option #5100 Contributed by @amanda11
Removed submit-debug-info tool and the st2debug component #5103
Removed check-licence script (cleanup) #5092

Contributed by @kroustou
Updated Makefile and CI to use Python 3 only, removing Python 2 (cleanup) #5090

Contributed by @blag
Remove st2resultstracker from st2ctl, the development environment and the st2actions setup.py (cleanup) #5108

Contributed by @winem

3.3.0 - October 06, 2020

Added

Add make command to autogen JSON schema from the models of action, rule, etc. Add check to ensure update to the models require schema to be regenerated. (new feature)
Improved st2sensor service logging message when a sensor will not be loaded when assigned to a different partition (@punkrokk) #4991
Add support for a configurable connect timeout for SSH connections as requested in #4715 by adding the new configuration parameter ssh_connect_timeout to the ssh_runner group in st2.conf. (new feature) #4914

This option was requested by Harry Lee (@tclh123) and contributed by Marcel Weinberg (@winem).
Added a FAQ for the default user/pass for the tools/launch_dev.sh script and print out the default pass to screen when the script completes. (improvement) #5013

Contributed by @punkrokk
Added deprecation warning if attempt to install or download a pack that only supports Python 2. (new feature) #5037

Contributed by @amanda11
Added deprecation warning to each StackStorm service log, if service is running with Python 2. (new feature) #5043

Contributed by @amanda11
Added deprecation warning to st2ctl, if st2 python version is Python 2. (new feature) #5044

Contributed by @amanda11

Changed

Switch to MongoDB 4.0 as the default version starting with all supported OS’s in st2 v3.3.0 (improvement) #4972

Contributed by @punkrokk
Added an enhancement where ST2api.log no longer reports the entire traceback when trying to get a datastore value that does not exist. It now reports a simplified log for cleaner reading. Addresses and Fixes #4979. (improvement) #4981

Contributed by Justin Sostre (@saucetray)
The built-in st2.action.file_writen trigger has been renamed to st2.action.file_written to fix the typo (bug fix) #4992
Renamed reference to the RBAC backend/plugin from enterprise to default. Updated st2api validation to use the new value when checking RBAC configuration. Removed other references to enterprise for RBAC related contents. (improvement)
Remove authentication headers St2-Api-Key, X-Auth-Token and Cookie from webhook payloads to prevent them from being stored in the database. (security bug fix) #4983

Contributed by @potato and @knagy
Updated orquesta to version v1.2.0.

Fixed

Fixed a bug where type attribute was missing for netstat action in linux pack. Fixes #4946

Reported by @scguoi and contributed by Sheshagiri (@sheshagiri)
Fixed a bug where persisting Orquesta to the MongoDB database returned an error message: key 'myvar.with.period' must not contain '.'. This happened anytime an input, output, publish or context var contained a key with a . within the name (such as with hostnames and IP addresses). This was a regression introduced by trying to improve performance. Fixing this bug means we are sacrificing performance of serialization/deserialization in favor of correctness for persisting workflows and their state to the MongoDB database. (bug fix) #4932

Contributed by Nick Maludy (@nmaludy Encore Technologies)
Fix a bug where passing an empty list to a with items task in a subworkflow causes the parent workflow to be stuck in running status. (bug fix) #4954
Fixed a bug in the example nginx HA template declared headers twice (bug fix) #4966 Contributed by @punkrokk
Fixed a bug in the paramiko_ssh runner where SSH sockets were not getting cleaned up correctly, specifically when specifying a bastion host / jump box. (bug fix) #4973

Contributed by Nick Maludy (@nmaludy Encore Technologies)
Fixed a bytes/string encoding bug in the linux.dig action so it should work on Python 3 (bug fix) #4993
Fixed a bug where a python3 sensor using ssl needs to be monkey patched earlier. See also #4832, #4975 and gevent/gevent#1016 (bug fix) #4976

Contributed by @punkrokk
Fixed bug where action information in RuleDB object was not being parsed properly because mongoengine EmbeddedDocument objects were added to JSON_UNFRIENDLY_TYPES and skipped. Removed this and added if to use to_json method so that mongoengine EmbeddedDocument are parsed properly.

Contributed by Bradley Bishop (@bishopbm1 Encore Technologies)
Fix a regression when updated dnspython pip dependency resulted in st2 services unable to connect to mongodb remote host (bug fix) #4997
Fixed a regression in the linux.dig action on Python 3. (bug fix) #4993

Contributed by @blag
Fixed a bug in pack installation logging code where unicode strings were not being interpolated properly. (bug fix)

Contributed by @misterpah
Fixed a compatibility issue with the latest version of the logging library API where the find_caller() function introduced some new variables. (bug fix) #4923

Contributed by @Dahfizz9897
Fixed another logging compatibility issue with the logging API in Python 3. The return from the logging.findCaller() implementation now expects a 4-element tuple. Also, in Python 3 there are new arguments that are passed in and needs to be acted upon, specificall stack_info that determines the new 4th element in the returned tuple. (bug fix) #5057

Contributed by Nick Maludy (@nmaludy Encore Technologies)

Removed

Removed Mistral workflow engine (deprecation) #5011

Contributed by Amanda McGuinness (@amanda11 Ammeon Solutions)
Removed CentOS 6/RHEL 6 support #4984

Contributed by Amanda McGuinness (@amanda11 Ammeon Solutions)
Removed our fork of codecov-python for CI and have switched back to the upstream version (improvement) #5002

3.2.0 - April 27, 2020

Added

Add support for blacklisting / whitelisting hosts to the HTTP runner by adding new url_hosts_blacklist and url_hosts_whitelist runner attribute. (new feature) #4757
Add user parameter to re_run method of st2client. #4785
Install pack dependencies automatically. #4769
Add support for immutable_parameters on Action Aliases. This feature allows default parameters to be supplied to the action on every execution of the alias. #4786
Add get_entrypoint() method to ActionResourceManager attribute of st2client. #4791
Add support for orquesta task retry. (new feature)
Add config option scheduler.execution_scheduling_timeout_threshold_min to better control the cleanup of scheduled actions that were orphaned. #4886

Changed

Install pack with the latest tag version if it exists when branch is not specialized. (improvement) #4743
Implement “continue” engine command to orquesta workflow. (improvement) #4740
Update various internal dependencies to latest stable versions (apscheduler, eventlet, kombu, amqp, pyyaml, mongoengine, python-gnupg, paramiko, tooz, webob, bcrypt).

Latest version of mongoengine should show some performance improvements (5-20%) when writing very large executions (executions with large results) to the database. #4767
Improved development instructions in requirements.txt and dist_utils.py comment headers (improvement) #4774
Add new actionrunner.stream_output_buffer_size config option and default it to -1 (previously default value was 0). This should result in a better performance and smaller CPU utilization for Python runner actions which produce a lot of output. (improvement)

Reported and contributed by Joshua Meyer (@jdmeyer3) #4803
Add new action_runner.pip_opts st2.conf config option which allows user to specify a list of command line option which are passed to pip install command when installing pack dependencies into a pack specific virtual environment. #4792
Refactor how orquesta handles individual item result for with items task. Before the fix, when there are a lot of items and/or result size for each item is huge, there is a negative performance impact on write to the database when recording the conductor state. (improvement)
Remove automatic rendering of workflow output when updating task state for orquesta workflows. This caused workflow output to render incorrectly in certain use case. The render_workflow_output function must be called separately. (improvement)
Update various internal dependencies to latest stable versions (cryptography, jinja2, requests, apscheduler, eventlet, amqp, kombu, semver, six) #4819 (improvement)
Improve MongoDB connection timeout related code. Connection and server selection timeout is now set to 3 seconds. Previously a default value of 30 seconds was used which means that for many connection related errors, our code would first wait for this timeout to be reached (30 seconds) before returning error to the end user. #4834
Upgrade pymongo to the latest stable version (3.10.0.). #4835 (improvement)
Updated Paramiko to v2.7.1 to support new PEM ECDSA key formats #4901 (improvement)
Remove .scrutinizer.yml config file. No longer used.
Convert escaped dict and dynamic fields in workflow db models to normal dict and dynamic fields. (performnce improvement)
Add support for PEP 508 environment markers in generated requirements.txt files. (improvement) #4895
Use pip-compile from pip-tools instead of pip-conflict-checker (improvement) #4896
Refactor how inbound criteria for join task in orquesta workflow is evaluated to count by task completion instead of task transition. (improvement)
The workflow engine orquesta is updated to v1.1.0 for the st2 v3.2 release. The version upgrade contains various new features and bug fixes. Please review the release notes for the full list of changes at https://github.com/StackStorm/orquesta/releases/tag/v1.1.0 and the st2 upgrade notes for potential impact. (improvement)
Update st2 nginx config to remove deprecated ssl on option. #4917 (improvement)
Updated and tested tooz to v2.8.0 to apply fix for consul coordination heartbeat (@punkrokk @winem) #5121

Fixed

Fix a typo that caused an internal server error when filtering actions by tags. Fixes #4918

Reported by @mweinberg-cm and contributed by Marcel Weinberg (@winem)
Fix the action query when filtering tags. The old implementation returned actions which have the provided name as action name and not as tag name. (bug fix) #4828

Reported by @AngryDeveloper and contributed by Marcel Weinberg (@winem)
Fix the passing of arrays to shell scripts where the arrays where not detected as such by the st2 action_db utility. This caused arrays to be passed as Python lists serialized into a string.

Reported by @kingsleyadam #4804 and contributed by Marcel Weinberg (@winem) #4861
Fix ssh zombies when using ProxyCommand from ssh config #4881 [Eric Edgar]
Fix rbac with execution view where the rbac is unable to verify the pack or uid of the execution because it was not returned from the action execution db. This would result in an internal server error when trying to view the results of a single execution. Contributed by Joshua Meyer (@jdmeyer3) #4758
Fixed logging middleware to output a content_length of 0 instead of Infinity when the type of data being returned is not supported. Previously, when the value was set to Infinity this would result in invalid JSON being output into structured logs. (bug fix) #4722

Contributed by Nick Maludy (@nmaludy Encore Technologies)
Fix the workflow execution cancelation to proceed even if the workflow execution is not found or completed. (bug fix) #4735
Added better error handling to contrib/linux/actions/dig.py to inform if dig is not installed. Contributed by JP Bourget (@punkrokk Syncurity) #4732
Update dist_utils module which is bundled with st2client and other Python packages so it doesn’t depend on internal pip API and so it works with latest pip version. (bug fix) #4750
Fix dependency conflicts in pack CI runs: downgrade requests dependency back to 0.21.0, update internal dependencies and test expectations (amqp, pyyaml, prance, six) (bugfix) #4774
Fix secrets masking in action parameters section defined inside the rule when using GET /v1/rules and GET /v1/rules/<ref> API endpoint. (bug fix) #4788 #4807

Contributed by @Nicodemos305 and @jeansfelix
Fix a bug with authentication API endpoint (POST /auth/v1/tokens) returning internal server error when running under gunicorn and when``auth.api_url`` config option was not set. (bug fix) #4809

Reported by @guzzijones
Fixed st2 execution get and st2 run not printing the action.ref for non-workflow actions. (bug fix) #4739

Contributed by Nick Maludy (@nmaludy Encore Technologies)
Update st2 execution get command to always include context.user, start_timestamp and end_timestamp attributes. (improvement) #4739
Fixed core.sendmail base64 encoding of longer subject lines (bug fix) #4795

Contributed by @stevemuskiewicz and @guzzijones
Update all the various rule criteria comparison operators which also work with strings (equals, icontains, nequals, etc.) to work correctly on Python 3 deployments if one of the operators is of a type bytes and the other is of a type unicode / string. (bug fix) #4831
Fix SSL connection support for MongoDB and RabbitMQ which wouldn’t work under Python 3 and would result in cryptic “maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object” error on connection failure.

NOTE: This issue only affected installations using Python 3. (bug fix) #4832 #4834

Reported by @alexku7.
Fix the amqp connection setup for WorkflowExecutionHandler to pass SSL params. (bug fix) #4845

Contributed by Tatsuma Matsuki (@mtatsuma)
Fix dependency conflicts by updating requests (2.23.0) and gitpython (2.1.15). #4869
Fix orquesta syntax error for with items task where action is misindented or missing. (bug fix) PR StackStorm/orquesta#195.
Fix orquesta yaql/jinja vars extraction to ignore methods of base ctx() dict. (bug fix) PR StackStorm/orquesta#196. Fixes #4866.
Fix parsing of array of dicts in YAQL functions. Fix regression in YAQL/Jinja conversion functions as a result of the change. (bug fix) PR StackStorm/orquesta#191.

Contributed by Hiroyasu Ohyama (@userlocalhost)
Fix retry in orquesta when a task that has a transition on failure will also be traversed on retry. (bug fix) PR StackStorm/orquesta#200

Removed

Removed Ubuntu 14.04 from test matrix #4897

3.1.0 - June 27, 2019

Changed

Allow the orquesta st2kv function to return default for nonexistent key. (improvement) #4678
Update requests library to latest version (2.22.0) in requirements. (improvement) #4680
Disallow “decrypt_kv” filter to be specified in the config for values that are marked as “secret: True” in the schema. (improvement) #4709
Upgrade tooz library to latest stable version (1.65.0) so it uses latest version of grpcio library. (improvement) #4713
Update st2-pack-install and st2-pack-download CLI command so it supports installing packs from local directories which are not git repositories. (improvement) #4713

Fixed

Fix orquesta st2kv to return empty string and null values. (bug fix) #4678
Allow tasks defined in the same task transition with fail to run for orquesta. (bug fix)
Fix workflow service to handle unexpected coordinator and database errors. (bug fix) #4704 #4705
Fix filter to_yaml_string to handle mongoengine base types for dict and list. (bug fix) #4700
Fix timeout handling in the Python runner. In some scenarios where action would time out before producing any output (stdout, stder), timeout was not correctly propagated to the user. (bug fix) #4713
Update st2common/setup.py file so it correctly declares all the dependencies and script files it provides. This way st2-pack-* commands can be used in a standalone fashion just by installing st2common Python package and nothing else. (bug fix) #4713
Fix st2-pack-download command so it works in the environments where sudo binary is not available (e.g. Docker). (bug fix) #4713

3.0.1 - May 24, 2019

Fixed

Fix a bug in the remote command and script runner so it correctly uses SSH port from a SSH config file if ssh_runner.use_ssh_config parameter is set to True and if a custom (non-default) value for SSH port is specified in the configured SSH config file (ssh_runner.ssh_config_file_path). (bug fix) #4660 #4661
Update pack install action so it works correctly when python_versions pack.yaml metadata attribute is used in combination with --use-python3 pack install flag. (bug fix) #4654 #4662
Add source_channel back to the context used by Mistral workflows for executions which are triggered via ChatOps (using action alias).

In StackStorm v3.0.0, this variable was inadvertently removed from the context used by Mistral workflows. (bug fix) #4650 #4656
Fix a bug with timestamp attribute in the execution.log attribute being incorrect when server time where st2api is running was not set to UTC. (bug fix) #4668

Contributed by Igor Cherkaev. (@emptywee)
Fix a bug with some packs which use --use-python3 flag (running Python 3 actions on installation where StackStorm components run under Python 2) which rely on modules from Python 3 standard library which are also available in Python 2 site-packages (e.g. concurrent) not working correctly.

In such scenario, package / module was incorrectly loaded from Python 2 site-packages instead of Python 3 standard library which broke such packs. (bug fix) #4658 #4674
Remove policy-delayed status to avoid bouncing between delayed statuses. (bug fix) #4655
Fix a possible shell injection in the linux.service action. User who had access to run this action could cause a shell command injection by passing a compromised value for either the service or action parameter. (bug fix) #4675

Reported by James Robinson (Netskope and Veracode).
Replace sseclient library on which CLI depends on with sseclient-py. sseclient has various issue which cause client to sometimes hang and keep the connection open which also causes st2 execution tail command to sometimes hang for a long time. (improvement)
Truncate some database index names so they are less than 65 characters long in total. This way it also works with AWS DocumentDB which doesn’t support longer index name at the moment.

NOTE: AWS DocumentDB is not officially supported. Use at your own risk. (improvement) #4688 #4690

Reported by Guillaume Truchot (@GuiTeK)

3.0.0 - April 18, 2019

Added

Allow access to user-scoped datastore items using {{ st2kv.user.<key name> }} Jinja template notation inside the action parameter default values. (improvement) #4463

Contributed by Hiroyasu OHYAMA (@userlocalhost).
Add support for new python_versions (list of string) attribute to pack metadata file (pack.yaml). With this attribute pack declares which major Python versions it supports and works with (e.g. 2 and 3).

For backward compatibility reasons, if pack metadata file doesn’t contain that attribute, it’s assumed it only works with Python 2. (new feature) #4474
Update service bootstrap code and make sure all the services register in a service registry once they come online and become available.

This functionality is only used internally and will only work if configuration backend is correctly configured in st2.conf (new feature) #4548
Add new GET /v1/service_registry/groups and GET /v1/service_registry/groups/<group_id>/members API endpoint for listing available service registry groups and members.

Also add corresponding CLI commands - st2 service-registry group list, st2 service registry member list [--group-id=<group id>]

NOTE: This API endpoint is behind an RBAC wall and can only be viewed by the admins. (new feature) #4548
Add support for ?include_attributes and ?exclude_attributes query param filter to the GET /api/v1/executions/{id} API endpoint. Also update st2 execution get CLI command so it only retrieves attributes which are displayed. (new feature) #4497

Contributed by Nick Maludy (@nmaludy Encore Technologies)
Add new --encrypted flag to st2 key set CLI command that allows users to pass in values which are already encrypted.

This attribute signals the API that the value is already encrypted and should be used as-is.

st2 key load CLI command has also been updated so it knows how to work with values which are already encrypted. This means that st2 key list -n 100 -j < data.json ; st2 key load data.json will now also work out of the box for encrypted datastore values (values which have encrypted: True and secret: True attribute will be treated as already encrypted and used as-is).

The most common use case for this feature is migrating / restoring datastore values from one StackStorm instance to another which uses the same crypto key.

Contributed by Nick Maludy (Encore Technologies) #4547
Add source_channel to Orquesta st2() context for workflows called via ChatOps. #4600

Changed

Changed the inquiries API path from /exp to /api/v1. #4495
Refactored workflow state in orquesta workflow engine. Previously, state in the workflow engine is not status to be consistent with st2. Other terminologies used in the engine are also revised to make it easier for developers to understand. (improvement)
Update Python runner code so it prioritizes libraries from pack virtual environment over StackStorm system dependencies.

For example, if pack depends on six==1.11.0 in pack requirements.txt, but StackStorm depends on six==1.10.0, six==1.11.0 will be used when running Python actions from that pack.

Keep in mind that will not work correctly if pack depends on a library which brakes functionality used by Python action wrapper code.

Contributed by Hiroyasu OHYAMA (@userlocalhost). #4571
Improved the way that the winrm-ps-script runner sends scripts to the target Windows host. Previously the script was read from the local filesystem and serialized as one long command executed on the command line. This failed when the script was longer than either 2047 or 8191 bytes (depending on Windows version) as the Windows command line uses this as its maximum length. To overcome this, the winrm-ps-script runner now uploads the script into a temporary directory on the target host, then executes the script. (improvement) #4514

Contributed by Nick Maludy (Encore Technologies)
Update various internal dependencies to latest stable versions (apscheduler, pyyaml, kombu, mongoengine, pytz, stevedore, python-editor, jinja2). #4610
Update logging code so we exclude log messages with log level AUDIT from a default service log file (e.g. st2api.log). Log messages with level AUDIT are already logged in a dedicated service audit log file (e.g. st2api.audit.log) so there is no need for them to also be duplicated and included in regular service log file.

NOTE: To aid with debugging, audit log messages are also included in a regular log file when log level is set to DEBUG or system.debug config option is set to True.

Reported by Nick Maludy. (improvement) #4538 #4502 #4621
Add missing --user argument to st2 execution list CLI command. (improvement) #4632

Contributed by Tristan Struthers (@trstruth).
Update decrypt_kv Jinja template filter so it to throws a more user-friendly error message when decryption fails because the variable references a datastore value which doesn’t exist. (improvement) #4634
Updated orquesta to v0.5. (improvement)

Fixed

Refactored orquesta execution graph to fix performance issue for workflows with many references to non-join tasks. st2workflowengine and DB models are refactored accordingly. (improvement) StackStorm/orquesta#122.
Fix orquesta workflow stuck in running status when one or more items failed execution for a with items task. (bug fix) #4523
Fix orquesta workflow bug where context variables are being overwritten on task join. (bug fix) StackStorm/orquesta#112
Fix orquesta with items task performance issue. Workflow runtime increase significantly when a with items task has many items and result in many retries on write conflicts. A distributed lock is acquired before write operations to avoid write conflicts. (bug fix) Stackstorm/orquesta#125
Fix a bug with some API endpoints returning 500 internal server error when an exception contained unicode data. (bug fix) #4598
Fix the st2 workflow inspect command so it correctly passes authentication token. (bug fix) #4615
Fix an issue with new line characters (\n) being converted to \r\n in remote shell command and script actions which use sudo. (bug fix) #4623
Update service bootstrap and st2-register-content script code so non-fatal errors are suppressed by default and only logged under DEBUG log level. (bug fix) #3933 #4626 #4630
Fix a bug with not being able to decrypt user-scoped datastore values inside Jinja expressions using decrypt_kv Jinja filter. (bug fix) #4634

Contributed by Hiroyasu OHYAMA (@userlocalhost).
Fix a bug with user-scoped datastore values not working inside action-chain workflows. (bug fix) #4634
Added missing parameter types to linux.wait_for_ssh action metadata. (bug fix) #4611
Fix HTTP runner (http-request) so it works correctly with unicode (non-ascii) body payloads. (bug fix) #4601 #4599

Reported by Carlos Santana (@kknyxkk) and Rafael Martins (@rsmartins78).
Fix st2-self-check so it sets correct permissions on pack directories which it copies over to /opt/stackstorm/packs. (bug fix) #4645
Fix POST /v1/actions API endpoint to throw a more user-friendly error when writing data file to disk fails because of incorrect permissions. (bug fix) #4645

2.10.4 - March 15, 2019

Fixed

Fix inadvertent regression in notifier service which would cause generic action trigger to only be dispatched for completed states even if custom states were specified using action_sensor.emit_when config option. (bug fix) Reported by Shu Sugimoto (@shusugmt). #4591
Make sure we don’t log auth token and api key inside st2api log file if those values are provided via query parameter and not header (?x-auth-token=foo, ?st2-api-key=bar). (bug fix) #4592 #4589
Fix rendering of {{ config_context. }} in orquesta task that references action from a different pack (bug fix) #4570 #4567
Add missing default config location (/etc/st2/st2.conf) to the following services: st2actionrunner, st2scheduler, st2workflowengine. (bug fix) #4596
Update statsd metrics driver so any exception thrown by statsd library is treated as non fatal.

Previously there was an edge case if user used a hostname instead of an IP address for metrics backend server address. In such scenario, if hostname DNS resolution failed, statsd driver would throw the exception which would propagate all the way up and break the application. (bug fix) #4597

Reported by Chris McKenzie.

2.10.3 - March 06, 2019

Fixed

Fix improper CORS where request from an origin not listed in allowed_origins will be responded with null for the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header. The fix returns the first of our allowed origins if the requesting origin is not a supported origin. Reported by Barak Tawily. (bug fix)

2.9.3 - March 06, 2019

Fixed

Fix improper CORS where request from an origin not listed in allowed_origins will be responded with null for the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header. The fix returns the first of our allowed origins if the requesting origin is not a supported origin. Reported by Barak Tawily. (bug fix)

2.10.2 - February 21, 2019

Added

Add support for various new SSL / TLS related config options (ssl_keyfile, ssl_certfile, ssl_ca_certs, ssl_certfile, authentication_mechanism) to the messaging section in st2.conf config file.

With those config options, user can configure things such as client based certificate authentication, client side verification of a server certificate against a specific CA bundle, etc.

NOTE: Those options are only supported when using a default and officially supported AMQP backend with RabbitMQ server. (new feature) #4541
Add metrics instrumentation to the st2notifier service. For the available / exposed metrics, please refer to https://docs.stackstorm.com/reference/metrics.html. (improvement) #4536

Changed

Update logging code so we exclude log messages with log level AUDIT from a default service log file (e.g. st2api.log). Log messages with level AUDIT are already logged in a dedicated service audit log file (e.g. st2api.audit.log) so there is no need for them to also be duplicated and included in regular service log file.

NOTE: To aid with debugging, audit log messages are also included in a regular log file when log level is set to DEBUG or system.debug config option is set to True.

Reported by Nick Maludy. (improvement) #4538 #4502
Update pyyaml dependency to the latest version. This latest version fixes an issue which could result in a code execution vulnerability if code uses yaml.load in an unsafe manner on untrusted input.

NOTE: StackStorm platform itself is not affected, because we already used yaml.safe_load everywhere.

Only custom packs which use yaml.load with non trusted user input could potentially be affected. (improvement) #4510 #4552 #4554
Update Orquesta to v0.4. #4551

Fixed

Fixed the packs.pack_install / !pack install {{ packs }} action-alias to not have redundant patterns. Previously this prevented it from being executed via st2 action-alias execute 'pack install xxx'. #4511

Contributed by Nick Maludy (Encore Technologies)
Fix datastore value encryption and make sure it also works correctly for unicode (non-ascii) values.

Reported by @dswebbthg, @nickbaum. (bug fix) #4513 #4527 #4528
Fix a bug with action positional parameter serialization used in local and remote script runner not working correctly with non-ascii (unicode) values.

This would prevent actions such as core.sendmail which utilize positional parameters from working correctly when a unicode value was provided.

Reported by @johandahlberg (bug fix) #4533
Fix core.sendmail action so it specifies charset=UTF-8 in the Content-Type email header. This way it works correctly when an email subject and / or body contains unicode data.

Reported by @johandahlberg (bug fix) #4533 4534
Fix CLI st2 apikey load not being idempotent and API endpoint /api/v1/apikeys not honoring desired ID for the new record creation. #4542
Moved the lock from concurrency policies into the scheduler to fix a race condition when there are multiple scheduler instances scheduling execution for action with concurrency policies. #4481 (bug fix)
Add retries to scheduler to handle temporary hiccup in DB connection. Refactor scheduler service to return proper exit code when there is a failure. #4539 (bug fix)
Update service setup code so we always ignore kombu library heartbeat_tick debug log messages.

Previously if DEBUG log level was set in service logging config file, but --debug service CLI flag / system.debug = True config option was not used, those messages were still logged which caused a lot of noise which made actual useful log messages hard to find. (improvement) #4557

2.10.1 - December 19, 2018

Fixed

Fix an issue with GET /v1/keys API endpoint not correctly handling ?scope=all and ?user=<username> query filter parameter inside the open-source edition. This would allow user A to retrieve datastore values from user B and similar.

NOTE: Enterprise edition with RBAC was not affected, because in RBAC version, correct check is in place which only allows users with an admin role to use ?scope=all and retrieve / view datastore values for arbitrary system users. (security issue bug fix)

2.10.0 - December 13, 2018

Added

Added notify runner parameter to Orquesta that allows user to specify which task(s) to get notified on completion.
Add support for task delay in Orquesta workflows. #4459 (new feature)
Add support for task with items in Orquesta workflows. #4400 (new feature)
Add support for workflow output on error in Orquesta workflows. #4436 (new feature)
Added -o and -m CLI options to st2-self-check script, to skip Orquesta and/or Mistral tests. #4347
Allow user to specify new database.authentication_mechanism config option in /etc/st2/st2.conf.

By default, SCRAM-SHA-1 is used with MongoDB 3.0 and later and MONGODB-CR (MongoDB Challenge Response protocol) for older servers.

Contributed by @aduca85 #4373
Add new metadata_file attribute to the following models: Action, Action Alias, Rule, Sensor, TriggerType. Value of this attribute points to a metadata file for a specific resource (YAML file which contains actual resource definition). Path is relative to the pack directory (e.g. actions/my_action1.meta.yaml, aliases/my_alias.yaml, sensors/my_sensor.yaml, rules/my_rule.yaml, triggers/my_trigger.yaml etc.).

Keep in mind that triggers can be registered in two ways - either via sensor definition file in sensors/ directory or via trigger definition file in triggers/ directory. If metadata_file attribute on TriggerTypeDB model points to sensors/ directory it means that trigger is registered via sensor definition. (new feature) #4445
Add new st2client.executions.get_children method for returning children execution objects for a specific (parent) execution. (new feature) #4444

Contributed by Tristan Struthers (@trstruth).
Allow user to run a subset of pack tests by utilizing the new -f command line option in the st2-run-pack-tests script.

For example:
1. Run all tests in a test file (module):
  
  st2-run-pack-tests -j -x -p contrib/packs/ -f test_action_download
2. Run a single test class
  
  st2-run-pack-tests -j -x -p contrib/packs/ -f test_action_download:DownloadGitRepoActionTestCase
3. Run a single test class method
  
  st2-run-pack-tests -j -x -p contrib/packs/ -f test_action_download:DownloadGitRepoActionTestCase.test_run_pack_download
(new feature) #4464

Changed

Redesigned and rewritten the action execution scheduler. Requested executions are put in a persistent queue for scheduler to process. Architecture is put into place for more complex execution scheduling. Action execution can be delayed on request. (improvement)
core.http action now supports additional HTTP methods: OPTIONS, TRACE, PATCH, PURGE.

Contributed by @emptywee (improvement) #4379
Runner loading code has been updated so it utilizes new “runner as Python package” functionality which has been introduced in a previous release. This means that the runner loading is now fully automatic and dynamic.

All the available / installed runners are automatically loaded and registering on each StackStorm service startup.

This means that st2ctl reload --register-runners flag is now obsolete because runners are automatically registered on service start up. In addition to that, content.system_runners_base_path and content.runners_base_paths config options are now also deprecated and unused.

For users who wish to develop and user custom action runners, they simply need to ensure they are packaged as Python packages and available / installed in StackStorm virtual environment (/opt/stackstorm/st2). (improvement) #4217
Old runner names which have been deprecated in StackStorm v0.9.0 have been removed (run-local, run-local-script, run-remote, run-remote-script, run-python, http-runner). If you are still using actions which reference runners using old names, you need to update them to keep it working. #4217
Update various CLI commands to only retrieve attributes which are displayed in the CLI from the API (st2 execution list, st2 execution get, st2 action list, st2 rule list, st2 sensor list). This speeds up run-time and means now those commands now finish faster.

If user wants to retrieve and view all the attributes, they can use --attr all CLI command argument (same as before). (improvement) #4396
Update various internal dependencies to latest stable versions (greenlet, pymongo, pytz, stevedore, tooz). #4410
Improve st2.conf migration for the new services by using prod-friendly logging settings by default #4415
Refactor Orquesta workflow to output on error. Depends on PR https://github.com/StackStorm/orquesta/pull/101 and https://github.com/StackStorm/orquesta/pull/102 (improvement)
Rename st2client.liveactions to st2client.executions. st2client.liveactions already represented operations on execution objects, but it was incorrectly named.

For backward compatibility reasons, st2client.liveactions will stay as an alias for st2client.executions and continue to work until it’s fully removed in a future release.

Fixed

st2 login CLI commands now exits with non zero exit code when login fails due to invalid credentials. (improvement) #4338
Fix st2 key load that errors when importing an empty file #43
Fixed warning in st2-run-pack-tests about invalid format for pip list. (bug fix)

Contributed by Nick Maludy (Encore Technologies). #4380
Fix a bug with st2 execution get / st2 run CLI command throwing an exception if the result field contained a double backslash string which looked like an unicode escape sequence. CLI incorrectly tried to parse that string as unicode escape sequence.

Reported by James E. King III @jeking3 (bug fix) #4407
Fix a bug so timersengine config section in st2.conf has precedence over timer section if explicitly specified in the config file.

Also fix a bug with default config values for timer section being used if user only specified timersengine section in the config. Previously user options were incorrectly ignored in favor of the default values. (bug fix) #4424
st2 pack install -j now only spits JSON output. Similarly, st2 pack install -y only spits YAML output. This change would enable the output to be parsed by tools. The behavior of st2 pack install hasn’t changed and is human friendly. If you want to get meta information about the pack as JSON (count of actions, sensors etc), you should rely on already existing st2 pack show -j.

Reported by Nick Maludy (improvement) #4260
Fix string operations on unicode data in Orquesta workflows, associated with PR https://github.com/StackStorm/orquesta/pull/98. (bug fix)
Fix access to st2 and action context in Orquesta workflows, associated with PR https://github.com/StackStorm/orquesta/pull/104. (bug fix)
st2ctl reload --register-aliases and st2ctl reload --register-all now spits a warning when trying to register aliases with no corresponding action registered in the db.

Reported by nzlosh (improvement) #4372.

2.9.1 - October 03, 2018

Changed

Speed up pack registration through the /v1/packs/register API endpoint. (improvement) #4342
Triggertypes API now sorts by trigger ref by default. st2 trigger list will now show a sorted list. (#4348)
Update st2-self-check script to include per-test timing information. (improvement) #4359

Fixed

Update st2sensorcontainer service to throw if user wants to run a sensor from a pack which is using Python 3 virtual environment.

We only support running Python runner actions from packs which use mixed Python environments (StackStorm components are running under Python 2 and particular a pack virtual environment is using Python 3). #4354
Update st2-pack-install and st2 pack install command so it works with local git repos (file://<path to local git repo>) which are in a detached head state (e.g. specific revision is checked out). (improvement) #4366
Fix a race which occurs when there are multiple concurrent requests to resume a workflow. #4369

2.9.0 - September 16, 2018

Added

Add new runners: winrm-cmd, winrm-ps-cmd and winrm-ps-script. The winrm-cmd runner executes Command Prompt commands remotely on Windows hosts using the WinRM protocol. The winrm-ps-cmd and winrm-ps-script runners execute PowerShell commands and scripts on remote Windows hosts using the WinRM protocol.

To accompany these new runners, there are two new actions core.winrm_cmd that executes remote Command Prompt commands along with core.winrm_ps_cmd that executes remote PowerShell commands. (new feature) #1636

Contributed by Nick Maludy (Encore Technologies).
Add new ?tags, query param filter to the /v1/actions API endpoint. This query parameter allows users to filter out actions based on the tag name . By default, when no filter values are provided, all actions are returned. (new feature) #4219
Add a new standalone standalone st2-pack-install CLI command. This command installs a pack (and sets up the pack virtual environment) on the server where it runs. It doesn’t register the content. It only depends on the Python, git and pip binary and st2common Python package to be installed on the system where it runs. It doesn’t depend on the database (MongoDB) and message bus (RabbitMQ).

It’s primary meant to be used in scenarios where the content (packs) are baked into the base container / VM image which is deployed to the cluster.

Keep in mind that the content itself still needs to be registered with StackStorm at some later point when access to RabbitMQ and MongoDB is available by running st2ctl reload --register-all. (new feature) #3912 #4256
Add new /v1/stream/executions/<id>/output[?output_type=all|stdout|stderr] stream API endpoint.

This API endpoint returns event source compatible response format.

For running executions it returns any output produced so far and any new output as it’s produced. Once the execution finishes, the connection is automatically closed.

For completed executions it returns all the output produced by the execution. (new feature)
Add new core.inject_trigger action for injecting a trigger instance into the system.

Keep in mind that the trigger which is to be injected must be registered and exist in the system. (new feature) #4231 #4259
Add support for ?include_attributes query param filter to all the content pack resource get all (list) API endpoints (actions, rules, trigger, executions, etc.). With this query parameter user can control which API model attributes (fields) to receive in the response. In situations where user is only interested in a subset of the model attributes, this allows for a significantly reduced response size and for a better performance. (new feature) (improvement) #4300
Add new action_sensor.emit_when config option which allows user to specify action status for which actiontrigger is emitted. For backward compatibility reasons it defaults to all the action completed states. (improvement) #4312 #4315

Contributed by Shu Sugimoto.
Improve performance of schedule action execution (POST /v1/executions) API endpoint.

Performance was improved by reducing the number of duplicated database queries, using atomic partial document updates instead of full document updates and by improving database document serialization and de-serialization performance. (improvement) #4030 #4331
Ported existing YAQL and Jinja functions from st2common to Orquesta. (new feature)
Add error entry in Orquesta workflow result on action execution failure. (improvement)

Changed

st2 key list command now defaults to --scope=all aka displaying all the datastore values (system and current user scoped) . If you only want to display system scoped values (old behavior) you can do that by passing --scope=system argument to the st2 key list command (st2 key list --scope=system). (improvement) #4221
The orquesta conductor implemented event based state machines to manage state transition of workflow execution. Interfaces to set workflow state and update task on action execution completion have changed and calls to those interfaces are changed accordingly. (improvement)
Change GET /v1/executions/<id>/output API endpoint so it never blocks and returns data produced so far for running executions. Behavior for completed executions is the same and didn’t change - all data produced by the execution is returned in the raw format.

The streaming (block until execution has finished for running executions) behavior has been moved to the new /stream/v1/executions/<id>/output API endpoint.

This way we are not mixing non-streaming (short lived) and streaming (long lived) connections inside a single service (st2api). (improvement)
Upgrade mongoengine (0.15.3) and pymongo (3.7.1) to the latest stable version. Those changes will allow us to support MongoDB 3.6 in the near future.

New version of mongoengine should also offer better performance when inserting and updating larger database objects (e.g. executions). (improvement) #4292
Trigger parameters and payload schema validation is now enabled by default (system.validate_trigger_parameters and system.validate_trigger_payload config options now default to True).

This means that trigger parameters are now validated against the parameters_schema defined on the trigger type when creating a rule and trigger payload is validated against payload_schema when dispatching a trigger via the sensor or via the webhooks API endpoint.

This provides a much safer and user-friendly default value. Previously we didn’t validate trigger payload for custom (non-system) triggers when dispatching a trigger via webhook which meant that webhooks API endpoint would silently accept an invalid trigger (e.g. referenced trigger doesn’t exist in the database or the payload doesn’t validate against the payload_schema), but TriggerInstanceDB object would never be created because creation failed inside the st2rulesengine service. This would make such issues very hard to troubleshoot because only way to find out about this failure would be to inspect the st2rulesengine service logs. (improvement) #4231
Improve code metric instrumentation and instrument code and various services with more metrics. Also document various exposed metrics. Documentation can be found at https://docs.stackstorm.com/latest/reference/metrics.html (improvement) #4310
Add new metrics.prefix config option. With this option user can specify an optional prefix which is prepended to each metric key (name). This comes handy in scenarios where user wants to submit metrics from multiple environments / deployments (e.g. testing, staging, dev) to the same backend instance. (improvement) #4310
Improve st2 execution tail CLI command so it also supports Orquesta workflows and arbitrarily nested workflows. Also fix the command so it doesn’t include data from other unrelated running executions. (improvement) #4328
Change default NGINX configuration to use HTTP 308 redirect, rather than 301, for plaintext requests. #4335
Improve performance of the GET /v1/actions/views/overview API endpoint. (improvement) #4337

Fixed

Fix an issue with AttributeError: module 'enum' has no attribute 'IntFlag' error which would appear when using Python 3 for a particular pack virtual environment and running on RHEL / CentOS. (bug fix) #4297
Fix a bug with action runner throwing an exception and failing to run an action if there was an empty pack config inside /opt/stackstorm/configs/. (bug fix) #4325
Fix action_sensor.enable config option so it works correctly if user sets this option to a non-default value of True. (bug fix) #4312 #4315

Contributed by Shu Sugimoto.
Update GET /v1/actions/views/entry_point/<action ref> to return correct Content-Type response header based on the entry point type / file extension. Previously it would always incorrectly return application/json. (improvement) #4327

Deprecated

The CloudSlang runner is now deprecated. In StackStorm 3.1 it will be removed from the core StackStorm codebase. The runner code will be moved to a separate repository, and no longer maintained by the core StackStorm team. Users will still be able to install and use this runner, but it will require additional steps to install.
The winexe-based Windows runners are now deprecated. They will be removed in StackStorm 3.1. They have been replaced by pywinrm-based Windows runners. See https://docs.stackstorm.com/latest/reference/runners.html#winrm-command-runner-winrm-cmd for more on using these new runners.

2.8.1 - July 18, 2018

Added

Update st2 CLI to inspect COLUMNS environment variable first when determining the terminal size. Previously this environment variable was checked second last (after trying to retrieve terminal size using various OS specific methods and before falling back to the default value).

This approach is more performant and allows user to easily overwrite the default value or value returned by the operating system checks - e.g. by running COLUMNS=200 st2 action list. (improvement) #4242

Changed

Update st2client/setup.py file to dynamically load requirements from st2client/requirements.txt file. The code works with pip >= 6.0.0, although using pip 9.0.0 or higher is strongly recommended. (improvement) #4209
Migrated runners to using the in-requirements.txt pattern for “components” in the build system, so the Makefile correctly generates and installs runner dependencies during testing and packaging. (improvement) (bugfix) #4169

Contributed by Nick Maludy (Encore Technologies).
Update st2 CLI to use a more sensible default terminal size for table formatting purposes if we are unable to retrieve terminal size using various system-specific approaches.

Previously we would fall back to a very unfriendly default of 20 columns for a total terminal width. This would cause every table column to wrap and make output impossible / hard to read. (improvement) #4242

Fixed

Fixed a bug where secret: true was not applying to full object and array trees. (bugfix) #4234 Reported by @jjm

Contributed by Nick Maludy (Encore Technologies).
Mark password http-request parameter as a secret. (bug fix) #4245

Reported by @daniel-mckenna

2.8.0 - July 10, 2018

Added

Orquesta - new StackStorm-native workflow engine. This is currently in beta. (new feature)
Added metrics for collecting performance and health information about the various ST2 services and functions. (new feature) #4004 #2974
When running a dev (unstable) release include git revision hash in the output when using st2 --version CLI command. (new feature) #4117
Update rules engine to also create rule enforcement object when trigger instances fails to match a rule during the rule matching / filtering phase due to an exception in the rule criteria (e.g. invalid Jinja expression, etc.).

This change increases visibility into rules which didn’t match due to an exception. Previously this was only visible / reflected in the rules engine log file. (improvement) #4134
Add new GET /v1/ruleenforcements/views[/<enforcement id>] API endpoints which allow user to retrieve RuleEnforcement objects with the corresponding TriggerInstance and Execution objects. (new feature) #4134
Add new status field to the RuleEnforcement model. This field can contain the following values - succeeded (trigger instance matched a rule and action execution was triggered successfully), failed (trigger instance matched a rule, but it didn’t result in an action execution due to Jinja rendering failure or other exception). (improvement) #4134 #4152
Add trigger type reference based filtering to the /v1/triggerinstances API endpoint - e.g. /v1/triggerinstances?trigger_type=core.st2.webhook. (new feature) #4151
Add new --python3 flag to st2 pack install CLI command and python3 parameter to packs.{install,setup_virtualenv} actions. When the value of this parameter is True, it uses python3 binary when creating virtual environment for that pack (based on the value of actionrunner.python3_binary config option).

Note 1: For this feature to work, Python 3 needs to be installed on the system, virtualenv package installed on the system needs to support Python 3 (it needs to be a recent version) and pack in question needs to support Python 3.

Note 2: This feature is experimental and opt-in. (new feature) #4016 #3922 #4149
Add two new Jinja filters - basename (os.path.basename) and dirname (os.path.dirname). #4184

Contributed by Florian Reisinger (@reisingerf).

Changed

Update st2 CLI to create the configuration directory and file, and authentication tokens with secure permissions (eg: readable only to owner) #4173
Refactor the callback module for the post run in runner to be more generic. (improvement)
Update various Python dependencies to the latest stable versions (gunicorn, gitpython, python-gnupg, tooz, flex). #4110
Update all the service and script entry points to use /etc/st2/st2.conf as a default value for the config file location.

This way users don’t need to explicitly provide --config-file CLI argument when running various scripts (e.g. st2-track-result, st2-apply-rbac-definitions, etc.) and when they just want to use a default config file. (improvement) #4111
Update st2 CLI to print a warning if a non-unicode system locale which would prevent StackStorm to function correctly in some scenarios is used. (improvement) #4127 #4120
Upgrade various internal Python library dependencies to the latest stable versions (kombu, amqp, gitpython, pytz, semver, oslo.utils). (improvement) #4162
Move from keyczar library to cryptography library for handling symmetric encryption and decryption (secret datastore values).

Note: This change is fully backward compatible since it just changes the underlying backend and implementation details. The same underlying encryption algorithm is used (AES256 in CBC mode with HMAC signature). (improvement) #4165

Fixed

Fixed a bug where secrets in pack configs weren’t being masked. Recently we introduced support for nested objects and arrays. Secret parameters within these nested objects and arrays were not being masked. The fix involves us fully traversing deeply nested objects and arrays and masking out any variables marked as secret. This means we now support pack config JSON schemas with type: object and its corresponding parameters: {} stanza, along with type: array and its corresponding items: {} stanza. We still do NOT support JSON schema combinations that includes the anyOf, allOf, oneOf, and not keywords. (bug fix) #4139

Contributed by Nick Maludy (Encore Technologies).
Style clean up to transport queues module and various config modules. (improvement)
Fixed CLI help for st2 action-alias match and execute. (#4174).
Fix regression in ?include_attributes query param filter in the /v1/executions API endpoint. (bug fix) #4226

2.7.2 - May 16, 2018

Changed

Reduce load on LDAP server and cache user groups response in an in-memory cache when RBAC remote LDAP group to local RBAC role synchronization feature is enabled.

Previously on authentication the code would hit LDAP server multiple times to retrieve user groups. With this change, user LDAP groups are only retrieved once upon authentication and cached and re-used in-memory by default for 120 seconds.

This reduces load on LDAP server and improves performance upon regular and concurrent user authentication.

This functionality can be disabled by setting cache_user_groups_response LDAP authentication backend kwarg to false.

Note: This change only affects users which utilize RBAC with remote LDAP groups to local RBAC roles synchronization feature enabled. (enterprise) (bug fix) #4103 #4105

Fixed

Fix an issue (race condition) which would result in not all the remote LDAP groups being synchronized with local RBAC roles if a user tried to authenticate with the same auth token concurrently in a short time frame.

Note: This issue only affects users which utilize RBAC with remote LDAP groups to local RBAC roles synchronization feature enabled. (enterprise) (bug fix) #4103 #4105
Fix an issue with some sensors which rely on select.poll() (FileWatch, GithubSensor, etc.) stopped working with StackStorm >= 2.7.0.

StackStorm v2.7.0 inadvertently introduced a change which broke a small set of sensors which rely on select.poll() functionality. (bug fix) #4118
Throw if id CLI argument is not passed to the st2-track-result script. (bug fix) #4115
Fixed pack config’s not properly rendering Jinja expressions within lists. (bugfix) #4121

Contributed by Nick Maludy (Encore Technologies).
Fixed pack config rendering error throw meaningful message when a Jinja syntax error is encountered. (bugfix) #4123

Contributed by Nick Maludy (Encore Technologies).

2.7.1 - April 20, 2018

Changed

When creating a pack environment during the pack installation, we now pass --no-download flag to the virtualenv binary. This way version of pip, wheel and distutils which is enforced by virtualenv is used instead of downloading the latest stable versions from PyPi.

This results in more reproducible pack virtual environments and we also ensure pip 9.0 is used ( there are some known issues with pip 10.0).

If for some reason you want to revert to the old behavior, you can do that by passing no_download=False parameter to the packs.setup_virtualenv action. #4085

Fixed

Fix st2 pack search and POST /api/v1/packs/index/search API endpoint so it doesn’t return internal server error when a single pack search term is provided. (bug fix) #4083

2.7.0 - April 12, 2018

Added

Update st2 execution tail command so it supports double nested workflows (workflow -> workflow -> execution). Previously, only top-level executions and single nested workflows (workflow -> execution) were supported. (improvement) #3962 #3960
Add support for utf-8 / unicode characters in the pack config files. (improvement) #3980 #3989

Contributed by @sumkire.
Added the ability of st2ctl to utilize environment variables from /etc/default/st2ctl (for Ubuntu/Debian) and /etc/sysconfig/st2ctl (RHEL/CentOS). This allows deployments to override COMPONENTS and ST2_CONF in a global location so st2ctl can start/stop/restart selected components and utilize a non-default location for st2.conf. (new feature) #4027

Contributed by Nick Maludy (Encore Technologies).
Add support for new optional content_version runner parameter to the Python and Local Shell Script runner. This parameter can contain a git commit hash / tag / branch from a pack git repository and runner will ensure this revision of the pack content (Python action / local shell script action) is used for a particular action execution.

Keep in mind that providing this parameter only ensures a particular revision of the pack content is used. Python runner virtual environment and dependencies are outside of this scope.

Note: To be able to utilize this functionality, git version >= 2.5.0 must be installed on the system. (new feature) #3997
Update windows runner to correctly handle and use timeout action execution status. (improvement) #4047
Add missing scope, decrypt and encrypt arguments to the datastore management related methods on the SensorService class. (improvement) #3895 #4057 #4058

Reported by @djh2020, @mxmader.
Add context field to rule model in which each rule has its own corresponding user. Besides, there is a new RBAC configuration permission_isolation. Whoever can only operate and observe their own rules or executions except system_user and users with RBAC admin role when set to True. That means system_user has the most powerful permission to operate all resources including rules or executions. (new feature) #4013

Contributed by Hanxi Liu (@apolloliu).

Changed

Modified RabbitMQ connection error message to make clear that it is an MQ connection issue. #3992
Additional refactor which makes action runners fully standalone and re-distributable Python packages. Also add support for multiple runners (runner modules) inside a single Python package and consolidate Python packages from two to one for the following runners: local runners, remote runners, windows runners. (improvement) #3999
Upgrade eventlet library to the latest stable version (0.22.1) (improvement) #4007 #3968
Increase maximum retry delay for action.retry policy from 5 seconds to 120 seconds. Because of the way retries are currently implemented (they are not st2notifier service restart safe), long retry delays are not recommended. For more information on this limitation please refer to the documentation - https://docs.stackstorm.com/reference/policies.html#retry. #3630 #3637
Update Python runner so it throws a more user-friendly exception in case Python script tries to access a key in self.config dictionary which doesn’t exist. (improvement) #4014
Update various Python dependencies to the latest stable versions (apscheduler, gitpython, pymongo, stevedore, paramiko, tooz, flex, webob, prance).
Refactored mistral runner to support callback from mistral instead of relying on st2resultstracker. This reduces the unnecessary traffic and CPU time by querying the mistral API. Included a command to manually add a state entry for Mistral workflow execution to recover from any callback failures. (improvement)
Throw a more user-friendly error when writing pack data files to disk and when an invalid file path is provided (e.g. path is outside the pack directory, etc.). (improvement) #4039 #4046
Change the output object returned by Windows runners so it matches the format from the local and remote runner.

Note: This change is backward incompatible - result attribute has been removed (same information is available in stdout attribute), exit_code renamed to return_code and two new attributes added - succeeded and failed.

For more information, please refer to the upgrade notes. #4044 #4047

Fixed

Fix Python runner actions and Argument list too long error when very large parameters are passed into the action. The fix utilizes stdin to pass parameters to the Python action wrapper process instead of CLI argument list. (bug fix) #1598 #3976
Fix a regression in POST /v1/webhooks/<webhook name> API endpoint introduced in v2.4.0 and add back support for arrays. In 2.4.0 support for arrays was inadvertently removed and only objects were supported. Keep in mind that this only applies to custom user-defined webhooks and system st2 webhook still requires input to be an object (dictionary). (bug fix) #3956 #3955
Fix a bug in the CLI causing st2 execution pause and st2 execution resume to not work. (bugfix) #4001

Contributed by Nick Maludy (Encore Technologies).
Fixed missing “paused” status option from “st2 execution list” help output. (bugfix) #4037

Contributed by Ben Hohnke (NTT Communications ICT Solutions)
Fix “st2 pack install” command so it doesn’t require access to pack index (index.stackstorm.org) when installing a local pack (pack name starting with “file://”). (bug fix) #3771 #3772
Fix rules engine so it correctly handles and renders action parameters which contain Jinja expressions and default values. (bug fix) #4050 #4050

Reported by @rakeshrm.
Make sure observer system role also grants pack_search permission. (bug fix) #4063 #4064

Reported by @SURAJTHEGREAT.
Fix st2 webhook get -h which was asking for a name or id as opposed to the URL of the webhook. Also, fix st2 webhook list to explicitly add a webhook column. (bugfix) #4048
Fix an issue with pack config validation code throwing a non-user friendly error message in case config item of type array failed config schema validation. (bug fix) #4166 #4168

Reported by @NikosVlagoidis.

2.6.0 - January 19, 2018

Added

Add new get_user_info method to action and sensor service. With this method, user can retrieve information about the user account which is used to perform datastore operations inside the action and sensor service. (new feature) #3831
Add new /api/v1/user API endpoint. This API endpoint is only available to the authenticated users and returns various metadata on the authenticated user (which method did the user use to authenticate, under which username the user is authenticated, which RBAC roles are assignment to this user in case RBAC is enabled, etc.) (new feature) #3831
The /api/v1/match_and_execute API endpoint matches a single alias and executes multiple times if the alias format has a match_multiple key set to true. Please refer to the documentation for usage. #3884

Contributed by @ahubl-mz.
Add ability to share common code between python sensors and python actions. You can now place common code inside a lib directory inside a pack (with an __init__.py inside lib directory to declare it a python package). You can then import the common code in sensors and actions. Please refer to documentation for samples and guidelines. #3490
Add support for password protected sudo to the local and remote runner. Password can be provided via the new sudo_password runner parameter. (new feature) #3867
Add new --tail flag to the st2 run / st2 action execute and st2 execution re-run CLI command. When this flag is provided, new execution will automatically be followed and tailed after it has been scheduled. (new feature) #3867
Added flag --auto-dict to st2 run and st2 execution re-run commands. This flag must now be specified in order to automatically convert list items to dicts based on presence of colon (:) in all of the list items (new feature) #3909
Allow user to set default log level used by all the Python runner actions by setting actionrunner.pythonrunner`` option in st2.conf (new feature) #3929
Update st2client package which is also utilized by the CLI so it also works under Python 3.

Note: Python 2.7 is only officially supported and tested Python version. Using Python 3 is at your own risk - they are likely still many bugs related to Python 3 compatibility. You have been warned. (new feature) #3929 #3932

Contributed by Anthony Shaw.
Add ?limit=-1 support for the API to fetch full result set (CLI equivalent flag --last/-n). Post error message for limit=0 and fix corner case where negative values for limit query param were not handled correctly. #3761 #3708 #3735
Only allow RBAC admins to retrieve all the results at once using ?limit=-1 query param, upate the code so api.max_page_size config option only applies to non-admin users, meaning users with admin permission can specify arbitrary value for ?limit query param which can also be larger than api.max_page_size. (improvement) #3939
Add new ?include_attributes query param filter to /v1/executions/ API endpoint With this filter user can select which fields to include in the response (whitelist approach, opposite of the existing ?exclude_attributes filter).

For example, if you only want to retrieve id and status field, the URL would look like this - /v1/executions?include_attributes=id,status. (new feature) #3953 #3858 #3856

Changed

st2actions.runners.pythonrunner.Action class path for base Python runner actions has been deprecated since StackStorm v1.6.0 and will be fully removed in StackStorm v2.7.0. If you have any actions still using this path you are encouraged to update them to use st2common.runners.base_action.Action path. #3803
Refactor st2common Python package so it’s fully self sustaining and can be used in a standalone manner. (improvement) #3803
Refactor Python action runner so it only depends on st2common Python package (previously it also depended on st2actions) and can be used in a standalone mode. Previously pack config and and some other parameters were retrieved inside the Python process wrapper, but now they are retrieved inside the runner container and passed to the runner. This also makes it easier to add support for pack configs to other runners in the future. (improvement) #3803
Update various Python dependencies to the latest stable versions (kombu, amqp, apscheduler, gitpython, pymongo, stevedore, paramiko, prompt-toolkit, flex). #3830
Mask values in an Inquiry response displayed to the user that were marked as “secret” in the inquiry’s response schema. #3825
Real-time action output streaming is now enabled by default. For more information on this feature, please refer to the documentation - https://docs.stackstorm.com/latest/reference/action_output_streaming.html. You can disable this functionality by setting actionrunner.stream_output config option in st2.conf to False and restart the services (sudo st2ctl restart).

Fixed

Fully fix performance regressions for short Python runner actions introduced in the past and partially fixed in #3809. (bug fix) #3803
Fix ‘NameError: name ‘cmd’ is not defined’ error when using linux.service with CentOS systems. #3843. Contributed by @shkadov
Fix bugs with newlines in execution formatter (client) (bug fix) #3872
Fixed st2ctl status to use better match when checking running process status. #3920
Removed invalid st2ctl option to re-open Mistral log files. #3920
Update garbage collection service and st2-purge-executions CLI tool and make deletion more efficient. Previously we incorrectly loaded all the execution fields in memory, but there was no need for that and now we only retrieve and load id which is the only field we need. #3936

Reported by @kevin-vh.

2.5.1 - December 14, 2017

Added

Add new log_level runner parameter to Python runner. With this parameter, user can control which log messages generated by Python runner actions are output to action stderr. For backward compatibility reasons it defaults to debug. This functionality comes handy in situations when an action depends on an external library which logs a lot of information under debug, but you only want to see messages with log level error or higher (or similar). (new feature) #3824
Add stevedore related metadata to Python package setup.py files for runner packages. This way runners can be installed using pip and dynamically enumerated and loaded using stevedore and corresponding helper functions.

All runners are now also fully fledged Python packages (previously they were single module Python packages which caused various install and distribution related issues when installing them via pip) (new feature)
Add new search rule criteria comparison operator. Please refer to the documentation for usage. (new feature) #3833

Contributed by @ahubl-mz.
Now a more user-friendly error message is thrown if a cycle is found inside the Jinja template string (e.g. when parameter / variable references itself). (improvement) #3908
Jinja templates in default parameter values now render as live parameters, if no “real” live parameter was provided. This allows the template to render pre-schema validation, resulting in the intended value type. (improvement) #3892

Changed

Update the output of st2 execution {run,get} CLI command to colorize the value of the status attribute (green for succeeded, red for failed, etc. aka the same as for the output of st2 execution list command). (improvement) #3810

Contributed by Nick Maludy (Encore Technologies).
Update log messages in the datastore service to correctly use DEBUG log level instead of AUDIT. #3845
Add the ability of st2 key load to load keys from both JSON and YAML files. Files can now contain a single KeyValuePair, or an array of KeyValuePairs. (improvement) #3815
Add the ability of st2 key load to load non-string values (objects, arrays, integers, booleans) and convert them to JSON before going into the datastore, this conversion requires the user passing in the -c/--convert flag. (improvement) #3815
Update st2 key load to load all properties of a key/value pair, now secret values can be loaded. (improvement) #3815

Contributed by Nick Maludy (Encore Technologies).

Fixed

Fix log messages generated by Python runner actions to include the correct action class name. Previously they always incorrectly used “ABCMeta” instead of the actual action class name. (bug fix) #3824
Fix st2 execution tail [last] CLI command so it doesn’t throw an exception if there are no executions in the database. (bug fix) #3760 #3802
Fix edge case for workflows stuck in running state. When Mistral receives a connection error from the st2 API on requesting action execution, there’s a duplicate action execution stuck in requested state. This leads to the st2resultstracker assuming the workflow is still running.
Fix a regression and a bug with no API validation being performed and API returning 500 instead of 400 status code if user didn’t include any request payload (body) when hitting POST and PUT API endpoints where body is mandatory. (bug fix) #3864
Fix a bug in Python runner which would cause action log messages to be duplicated in action stderr output when utilizing action service / datastore service inside actions. (bug fix)
Fix performance issue on the CLI when formatting the output as JSON or YAML. (bug fix) #3697

Contributed by Nick Maludy (Encore Technologies).

2.5.0 - October 25, 2017

Added

Add new feature which allows runner action output (stdout and stderr) to be streamed and consumed in real-time by using one of the following approaches:
- /v1/executions/<execution id>/output[?type=stdout/stderr] API endpoint.
- /v1/stream/ stream endpoint and listening for st2.execution.stdout__create and st2.execution.output__create /v1/stream stream API endpoint events.
- st2 execution tail <execution id> [--type=stdout/stderr] CLI command (underneath it uses stream API endpoint).
Right now this functionality is available for the following runners:
- local command runner
- local script runner
- remote command runner
- remote script runner
- python runner
Note: This feature is still experimental and it’s disabled by default (opt-in). To enable it, set actionrunner.stream_output config option to True.

(new feature) #2175 #3657 #3729
Update st2 role-assignment list RBAC CLI command to include information about where a particular assignment comes from (from which local assignment or mapping file). (improvement) #3763
Add support for overlapping RBAC role assignments for assignments via remote LDAP group to StackStorm role mappings. This means that the same role can now be granted via multiple RBAC mapping files. #3763
Add new Jinja filters from_json_string, from_yaml_string, and jsonpath_query. #3763
Add new “Inquiry” capability, which adds ability to “ask a question”, usually in a workflow. Create a new runner type: “inquirer” to support this, as well as new API endpoints and client commands for interacting with Inquiries

Contributed by mierdin. #3653
Added two new rule operators, inside and ninside which allow for the reverse intent of the contains and ncontains operators. #3781

Contributed by @lampwins.
Allow user to use more expressive regular expressions inside action alias format string by allowing them to specify start (^) and end ($) anchors. Previously, those anchors were automatically added at the beginning and end of the alias format string. Now they are only added if a format string doesn’t already contain them. #3789

Contributed by @ahubl-mz.
Add new POST /v1/aliasexecution/match_and_execute API endpoint which allows user to schedule an execution based on a command string if a matching alias is found in the database.

This API endpoint is meant to be used with chat bot plugins. It allows them to be simple thin wrappers around this API endpoint which send each chat line to this API endpoint and handle the response. #3773
Add several improvements to the installation scripts: They support using proxy servers. ~stanley no longer has to be /home/stanley. In addition to the on-screen display, the output from the installation script is now logged to a file beginning with st2-install under /var/log/st2/. Furthermore, the script handles re-runs better, although it’s not fully idempotent yet. More improvements are expected in the near future. st2-packages: #505, #506, #507, #508, #509, #510, #512, #517.

Fixed

Fix a bug where sensor watch queues were not deleted after sensor container process was shut down. This resulted in spurious queues left behind. This should not have caused performance impact but just messes with rabbitmqadmin output and maybe tedious for operators. (bug fix) #3628

Reported by Igor.
Make sure all the temporary RabbitMQ queues used by the stream service are deleted once the connection to RabbitMQ is closed. Those queues are temporary and unique in nature and new ones are created on each service start-up so we need to make sure to correctly clean up old queues.

#3746
Fix cancellation of subworkflow and subchain. Cancel of Mistral workflow or Action Chain is cascaded down to subworkflows appropriately. Cancel from tasks in the workflow or chain is cascaded up to the parent. (bug fix)
Fix delays in st2resultstracker on querying workflow status from Mistral. Make sleep time for empty queue and no workers configurable. Reduce the default sleep times to 5 seconds. StackStorm instances that handle more workflows should consider increasing the query interval for better CPU utilization.
Fix missing type for the parameters with enum in the core st2 packs.(bug fix) #3737

Reported by Nick Maludy.
Add missing -h / --help CLI flag to the following execution CLI commands: cancel, pause, resume. (bug fix) #3750
Fix execution cancel and pause CLI commands and make id a required argument. (bug fix) #3750
Fix st2 role-assignment list CLI command and allow --user, --remote and --role arguments to be used together. Previously they were mutually exclusive so it wasn’t possible to use them together. (bug fix) #3763
Update default event name whitelist for /v1/stream API endpoint and make sure st2.announcement__errbot and other event names starting with st2.announcement__* prefix are not filtered out. #3769 (bug fix)

Reported by Carlos.
Fix action-alias execute response to show execution id and matching action-alias #3231 (bug fix) Reported by Carlos.
Fix st2 apikey load command to update an existing entry if items in input file contain id attribute and item already exists on the server. This way the behavior is consistent with st2 key load command and the command is idempotent if each item contains id attribute. #3748 #3786

Reported by Christopher Baklid.
Don’t log MongoDB database password if user specifies URI for database.db_host config parameter and that URI also includes a password. Default and a common scenario is specifying password as a separate database.password config parameter. #3797

Reported by Igor Cherkaev.
Fix POST /v1/actionalias/match API endpoint to correctly return a dictionary instead of an array. We had a correct OpenAPI definition for the response, but the code incorrectly returned an array instead of a dictionary.

Note: This is a breaking change so if your code utilizes this API endpoint you need to update to treat response as a dictionary and not as an array with a single item. #377
Partially fix performance overhead and regression for short and simple Python runner actions. Full / complete fix will be included in v2.6.0. #3809

Changed

Minor language and style tidy up of help strings and error messages. #3782

2.4.1 - September 12, 2017

Fixed

Fix a bug with /v1/packs/install and /v1/packs/uninstall API endpoints incorrectly using system user for scheduled pack install and pack uninstall executions instead of the user which performed the API operation.(bug fix) #3693 #3696

Reported by theuiz.
Fix mistral callback failure when result contains unicode. (bug fix)
Fix cancellation of delayed action execution for tasks in workflow. (bug fix)
Fix timeout of mistral shutdown in systemd service. The fix is done upstream. https://review.openstack.org/#/c/499853/ (bug fix)
Fix st2ctl clean not using database connection information from config. This now uses the new st2-cleanup-db command. (bug fix) #3659

Contributed by Nick Maludy (Encore Technologies).

Changed

Update st2 CLI command to print a more user-friendly usage / help string if no arguments are passed to the CLI. (improvement) #3710
Allow user to specify multiple values for a parameter of type array of dicts when using st2 run CLI command. #3670

Contributed by Hiroyasu OHYAMA.
Added new command st2-cleanup-db that drops the current StackStorm MongoDB database. #3659

Contributed by Nick Maludy (Encore Technologies).

2.4.0 - August 23, 2017

Added

Add sample passive sensor at contrib/examples/sensors/echo_flask_app. (improvement) #3667
Add pack config into action context. This is made available under the config_context key. #3183
Add limit/-n flag and pagination note(stderr) in the CLI for st2 key list. Default limit is 50. #3641
Implement pause and resume for Mistral workflow and Action Chain. Pause and resume will cascade down to subworkflows and/or subchains. Pause from a subworkflow or subchain will cascade up to the parent workflow. (new feature)
Add pack index endpoint. It will make a request for every index defined in st2.conf and return the combined list of available packs.
Added a new field timestamp_f to the GELF logging formatter that represents the time of the logging even in fractional time (resolution is dependent on your system). This allows adjacent logging events to be distinguished more accurately by the time they occurred. Contributed by Nick Maludy (Encore Technologies) #3362
Require new STREAM_VIEW RBAC permission type to be able to view /v1/stream stream API endpoint. (improvement) #3676
Add new ?events, ?action_refs and ?execution_ids query params to /v1/stream/ API endpoint. These query parameters allow users to filter out which events to receive based on the event type, action ref and execution id. By default, when no filters are provided, all events are returned. (new feature) #3677
Show count of pack content (actions, sensors, triggers, rules and aliases) to be registered before the st2 pack install so that the delay in install is not mistaken as no response or hanging command. (improvement) #3586 #3675
Allow users to specify value for “array of objects” parameter type using a simple notation when using the st2 run CLI command. (improvement) #3646 #3670

Contributed by Hiroyasu OHYAMA.
Copy nearly all existing Jinja filters and make them available in both Jinja and YAQL within Mistral workflows (https://github.com/StackStorm/st2mistral/pull/30). Modify st2kv default behavior (BREAKING CHANGE) to not decrypt ciphertext in datastore by default (now explicitly enabled via optional parameter).

Contributed by mierdin. #3565
Add regex_substring Jinja filter for searching for a pattern in a provided string and returning the result. (improvement)

Contributed by mierdin. #3482

Changed

Rename ST2 action runner cancel queue from st2.actionrunner.canel to st2.actionrunner.cancel. (improvement) #3247
Install scripts and documentation have been updated to install MongoDB 3.4 by default (previously 3.2 was installed by default). If you want to upgrade an existing installation, please follow the official instructions at https://docs.mongodb.com/v3.4/release-notes/3.4-upgrade-standalone/. (improvement)
Update garbage collector service to delete corresponding stdout and stderr objects which belong to executions which are to be deleted. #2175 #3657

Removed

Support for pack config.yaml has been removed. Pack configuration should use the new style, at /opt/stackstorm/configs/<pack>.yaml. Packs containing config.yaml will generate a fatal ERROR on pack registration.

Fixed

Fix retrying in message bus exchange registration. (bug fix) #3635 #3638

Reported by John Arnold.
Fix message bus related race condition which could, under some rare scenarios, cause first published message to be ignored because there were no consumers for that particular queue yet. This could happen in a scenario when API service came online and served a request before action runner service came online.

This also fixes an issue with Redis kombu backend not working. (bug fix) #3635 #3639 #3648
Fix logrotate configuration to delete stale compressed st2actionrunner logs #3647
Fix trace list API endpoint sorting by start_timestamp, using ?sort_desc=True|False query parameters and by passing --sort=asc|desc parameter to the st2 trace list CLI command. Descending order by default.(bug fix) #3237 #3665
Fix pack index health endpoint. It now points to the right controller. #3672
Fix ‘pack register content’ failures appearing on some slower systems by lifting action timeout. #3685

2.3.2 - July 28, 2017

Added

Add test coverage and test timing capabilities to st2-run-pack-tests. The -c option enables test coverage and the -t option enables test timings. These capabilities have also been enabled in the ci pipeline for packs in the exchange.

Contributed by Nick Maludy. #3508
Add ability to explicitly set stream_url in st2client. (improvement) #3432
Add support for handling arrays of dictionaries to st2 config CLI command. (improvement) #3594

Contributed by Hiroyasu OHYAMA.

Changed

Update st2 CLI so it also displays “there are more results” note when -n flag is used and there are more items available. (improvement) #3552

Fixed

Fix st2client to display unicode characters in pack content description. (bug-fix) #3511
Don’t automatically append .git suffix to repo URIs passed to packs.download action. This fixes a bug and now action also works with repo urls which don’t contain .git suffix. (bug fix)

Contributed by carbineneutral. #3534 #3544
st2 pack commands now work when StackStorm servers are behind a HTTP/HTTPS proxy. You can set http_proxy or https_proxy environment variables for st2api and st2actionrunner processes and pack commands will work with proxy. Refer to documentation for details on proxy configuration. (bug-fix) #3137
Fix API validation regression so all input data sent to some POST and PUT API endpoints is correctly validated. (bug fix) #3580
Fix an API bug and allow users to create rules which reference actions which don’t yet exist in the system when RBAC is enabled and user doesn’t have system admin permission. (bug fix) #3572 #3573

Reported by sibirajal.
Add a check to make sure action exists in the POST of the action execution API. (bug fix)
Fix api key generation, to use system user, when auth is disabled. (bug fix) #3578 #3593
Fix invocation of Mistral workflow from Action Chain with jinja in params. (bug fix) #3440
Fix st2client API bug, a backward incompatible change in query() method, introduced in note implementation (#3514) in 2.3.1. The query() method is now backward compatible (pre 2.3) and query_with_count() method is used for results pagination and note. #3616
Fix logrotate script so that it no longer prints the st2ctl PID status to stdout for each file that it rotates. Also, it will no longer print an error if /var/log/st2/st2web.log is missing.

Contributed by Nick Maludy. #3633

2.3.1 - July 07, 2017

Added

Add support for passphrase parameter to remote-shell-script runner and as such, support for password protected SSH key files. (improvement)

Reported by Sibiraja L, Nick Maludy.
Add json_escape Jinja filter for escaping JSON strings. (improvement)

Contributed by mierdin. #3480
Print a note to stderr if there are more entries / results on the server side which are displayed to the user for the following list CLI commands: rule, execution, rule-enforcment, trace and trigger-instance. Default limit is 50. (improvement)

Reported by Eugen C. #3488

Changed

Update st2 run / st2 execution run command to display result of workflow actions when they finish. In the workflow case, result of the last task (action) of the workflow is used. (improvement) #3481
Update Python runner so it mimics behavior from StackStorm pre 1.6 and returns action result as is (serialized as string) in case we are unable to serialize action result because it contains non-simple types (e.g. class instances) which can’t be serialized.

In v1.6 we introduced a change when in such instances, we simply returned None as result and didn’t log anything which was confusing. (improvement) #3489

Reported by Anthony Shaw.
Add missing pagination support to /v1/apikeys API endpoint. (improvement) #3486
Update action-chain runner so a default value for display_published runner parameter is True. This way it’s consistent with Mistral runner behavior and intermediate variables published inside action-chain workflow are stored and displayed by default. #3518 #3519

Reported by Jacob Floyd.
Reduce API service (st2api) log clutter and log whole API response (API controller method return value / response body) under DEBUG log level instead of INFO. (improvement) #3539

Reported by Sibiraja L.
Enforce validation on position parameter for action parameters. If position values are not sequential or not unique, action registration will now fail. (bug-fix) (improvement) #3317 #3474

Deprecated

Deprecate results_tracker config group and move configuration variables to resultstracker group instead. If you have results_tracker config group in the config, it is recommended to switch to resultstracker instead. (bug-fix) #3500

Fixed

Fix ?name query param filter in /v1/actionalias API endpoint. (bug fix) #3503
Notifier now consumes ActionExecution queue as opposed to LiveAction queue. With this change, the Jinja templates used in notify messages that refer to keys in ActionExecution resolve reliably. Previously, there was a race condition in which a LiveAction would have been updated but ActionExecution was not and therefore, the jinja templates weren’t reliably resolved. (bug-fix) #3487 #3496

Reported by Chris Katzmann, Nick Maludy.
Update config loader so it correctly handles config schema default values which are falsey (False, None, 0, etc.) (bug-fix) #3504 #3531

Reported by Simas Čepaitis.
Fix st2ctl register failure to register rules in some race conditions. st2-register-content will now register internal trigger types by default. (bug-fix) #3542
Correctly use service token TTL when generating temporary token for datastore service. This fixes a bug and allows user to set TTL value for non service tokens to less than 24 hours. (bug fix) #3523 #3524

Reported by theuiz.

2.3.0 - June 19, 2017

Added

Introduce new CAPABILITIES constant on auth backend classes. With this constant, auth backends can advertise functionality they support (e.g. authenticate a user, retrieve information about a particular user, retrieve a list of groups a particular user is a member of). (new feature)
Add support for automatic RBAC role assignment based on the remote auth backend groups user is a member of (e.g. LDAP groups) and mappings defined in /opt/stackstorm/rbac/mappings directory.

Note: This functionality is currently implemented for enterprise LDAP auth backend and only available in enterprise edition. (new feature)
Allow user to specify a custom list of attribute names which are masked in the log messages by setting log.mask_secrets_blacklist config option. (improvement)
Add webhook payload to the Jinja render context when rendering Jinja variable inside rule criteria section.
Implement RBAC for traces API endpoints. (improvement)
Implement RBAC for API_KEY_CREATE permission type. (improvement)
Implement RBAC for timers API endpoints. (improvement)
Implement RBAC for webhooks get all and get one API endpoint. (improvement)
Implement RBAC for policy types and policies get all and get one API endpoint. (improvement)
Add new /v1/rbac/role_assignments API endpoint for retrieving user role assignment information. (new feature)
Add CLI commands for listing RBAC roles:
- st2 role list [--system]
- st2 role get <role id or name>
Add CLI commands for listing RBAC user role assignments:
- st2 role-assignment list [--role=<role name>] [--user=<username>]
- st2 role-assignment get <role assignment id>
Add the following new actions to chatops pack:
- chatops.match
- chatops.match_and_execute
- chatops.run
#3425 [Anthony Shaw]
Add new examples.forloop_chain action-chain workflow to the examples pack which demonstrates how to iterate over multiple pages inside a workflow. #3328 [Carles Figuerola]
Add new core.uuid action for generating type 1 and type 4 UUIDs. [John Anderson] #3414

Changed

Refactor the action execution asynchronous callback functionality into the runner plugin architecture. (improvement)
Linux file watch sensor is now disabled by default. To enable it, set enabled: true in /opt/stackstorm/packs/linux/sensors/file_watch_sensor.yaml
Update the code so user can specify arbitrary default TTL for access tokens in st2.conf and all the StackStorm services which rely on access tokens still work.

Previously, the lowest TTL user could specify for all the services to still work was 24 hours. This has been fixed and the default TTL specified in the config now only affects user access tokens and services use special service access tokens with no max TTL limit. (bug fix)

Reported by Jiang Wei. #3314 #3315
Update /executions/views/filters API endpoint so it excludes null / None from filter values for fields where null is not a valid field value. (improvement)

Contributed by Cody A. Ray. #3193
Require ACTION_VIEW permission type to be able to access entry_point and parameters actions view controller. (improvement)
Update /v1/rbac/permission_types and /v1/rbac/permission_types/<resource type> API endpoint to return a dictionary which also includes a description for each available permission type. (improvement)
Require EXECUTION_VIEWS_FILTERS_LIST RBAC permission type to be able to access /executions/views/filters API endpoint. (improvement)
Add webhook payload to the Jinja render context when rendering Jinja variable inside rule criteria section
Switch file_watch_sensor in Linux pack to use trigger type with parameters. Now you can add a rule with file_path and sensor will pick up the file_path from the rule. A sample rule is provided in contrib/examples/rules/sample_rule_file_watch.yaml. (improvement)
Cancel actions that are Mistral workflow when the parent workflow is cancelled. (improvement)
Upgrade various internal Python library dependencies to the latest stable versions (pyyaml, requests, appscheduler, gitpython, paramiko, mongoengine, tooz).
Update /v1/rbac/roles API endpoint so it includes corresponding permission grant objects. Previously it only included permission grant ids. (improvement)
When RBAC is enabled and action is scheduled (ran) through the API, include rbac dictionary with user and roles action_context attribute. (improvement)
Make the query interval to third party workflow systems (including mistral) a configurable value. You can now set query_interval in [results_tracker] section in /etc/st2/st2.conf. With this, the default query interval is set to 20s as opposed to 0.1s which was rather aggressive and could cause CPU churn when there is a large number of outstanding workflows. (improvement)
Let st2 pack install register all available content in pack by default to be consistent with st2 pack register. (improvement) #3452
The dest_server parameter has been removed from the linux.scp action. Going forward simply specify the server as part of the source and / or destination arguments. (improvement) #3335 #3463 [Nick Maludy]
Add missing database indexes which should speed up various queries on production deployments with large datasets. (improvement)
Use a default value for a config item from config schema even if that config item is not required (required: false). (improvement)

Reported by nmlaudy. #3468 #3469
Removing empty config.yaml for packs pack so warning isn’t thrown by default now that deprecation warning is in place. (improvement)

Removed

Drop support for invalid semver versions strings (e.g. 2.0) in pack.yaml pack metadata. Only full semver version strings are supported, e.g. 2.1.1. This was originally deprecated in v2.1.0.

Deprecated

Packs containing config.yaml will now generate a WARNING log on pack registration. Support for config.yaml will be removed in StackStorm 2.4. Migrate your pack configurations now.

Fixed

Update st2rulesengine to exit non-0 on failure (bug fix) #3394 [Andrew Regan]
Fix a bug where trigger parameters and payloads were being validated regardless of the relevant settings in the configuration (system.validate_trigger_payload, system.validate_trigger_parameters). (bug fix)
Fix system=True filter in the /v1/rbac/roles API endpoint so it works correctly. (bug fix)
Fix a bug where keyvalue objects weren’t properly cast to numeric types. (bug fix)
When action worker is being shutdown and action executions are being abandoned, invoke post run on the action executions to ensure operations such as callback is performed. (bug fix)
Fix action chain runner workflows so variables (vars) and parameter values support non-ascii (unicode) characters. (bug fix)
Fix a bug in query base module when outstanding queries to mistral or other workflow engines could cause a tight loop without cooperative yield leading to 100% CPU usage by st2resultstracker process. (bug-fix)
Ignore unicode related encoding errors which could occur in some circumstances when packs.setup_virtualenv fails due to a missing dependency or similar. (improvement, bug fix) #3337 [Sean Reifschneider]
Update st2-apply-rbac-definitions so it also removes assignments for users which don’t exist in the database. (improvement, bug fix)
Fix a bug where action runner throws KeyError on abandoning action executions during process shutdown. (bug fix)
Fix URL parsing bug where percent encoded URLs aren’t decoded properly (bug fix)
The API endpoint for searching or showing packs has been updated to return an empty list instead of None when the pack was not found in the index. (bug fix)

Security

Make sure all the role assignments for a particular user are correctly deleted from the database after deleting an assignment file from /opt/stackstorm/rbac/assignments directory and running st2-apply-rbac-definitions tool. (bug fix)

2.2.1 - April 3, 2017

Added

Allow user to specify which branch of st2tests repository to use by passing -b option to st2-self-check script. (improvement)
Update tooz library to the latest version (v1.15.0). Using the latest version means StackStorm now also supports using consul, etcd and other new backends supported by tooz for coordination. (improvement)

Fixed

Fix st2ctl reload command so it preserves exit code from st2-register-content script and correctly fails on failure by default.
Fix base action alias test class (BaseActionAliasTestCase) so it also works if the local pack directory name doesn’t match the pack name (this might be the case with new pack management during development where local git repository directory name doesn’t match pack name) (bug fix)
Fix a bug with default values from pack config schema not being passed via config to Python runner actions and sensors if pack didn’t contain a config file in /opt/stackstorm/configs directory. (bug fix)

Reported by Jon Middleton.
Make various improvements and changes to st2-run-pack-tests script so it works out of the box on servers where StackStorm has been installed using packages. (improvement)
Fix a bug with authentication middleware not working correctly when supplying credentials in an Authorization header using basic auth format when password contained a colon (:).

Note: Usernames with colon are still not supported. (bug fix)

Contributed by Carlos.
Update st2-run-pack-tests script so it doesn’t try to install global pack test dependencies (mock, unittest2, nose) when running in an environment where those dependencies are already available.
Make sure remote command and script runner correctly close SSH connections after the action execution has completed. (bug fix)

Reported by Nagy Krisztián.
Fix a bug with pack configs API endpoint (PUT /v1/configs/) not working when RBAC was enabled. (bug fix)

Reported by efenian.
Fix concurrency related unit tests to support upgrade of the tooz library. (bug fix)
Fix a bug with config schema validation not being performed upon registration which could cause bad or empty config schema to end up in the system. (bug fix)

Security

Removed support for medium-strength ciphers from default nginx configuration (#3244)
Various security related improvements in the enterprise LDAP auth backend. (improvement, bug fix)

2.2.0 - February 27, 2017

Added

Use the newly introduced CANCELLED state in mistral for workflow cancellation. Currently, st2 put the workflow in a PAUSED state in mistral. (improvement)
Add support for evaluating Jinja expressions in mistral workflow definition where yaql expressions are typically accepted. (improvement)
Update the dependencies and the code base so we now also support MongoDB 3.4. Officially supported MongoDB versions are now MongoDB 3.2 and 3.4. Currently default version installed by the installer script still is 3.2. (improvement)
Introduce validation of trigger parameters when creating a rule for non-system (user-defined) trigger types.

Validation is only performed if system.validate_trigger_parameters config option is enabled (it’s disabled by default) and if trigger object defines parameters_schema attribute.

Contribution by Hiroyasu OHYAMA. #3094
Introduce validation of trigger payload for non-system and user-defined triggers which is performed when dispatching a trigger inside a sensor and when sending a trigger via custom webhook.

Validation is only performed if system.validate_trigger_payload config option is enabled (it’s disabled by default) and if trigger object defines payload_schema attribute.

Contribution by Hiroyasu OHYAMA. #3094
Add support for st2 login and st2 whoami commands. These add some additional functionality beyond the existing st2 auth command and actually works with the local configuration so that users do not have to.
Add support for complex rendering inside of array and object types. This allows the user to nest Jinja variables in array and object types.
Add new -j flag to the st2-run-pack-tests script. When this flag is specified script will just try to run the tests and it won’t set up the virtual environment and install the dependencies. This flag can be used when virtual environment for pack tests already exists and when you know dependencies are already installed and up to date. (new feature)

Changed

Mistral fork is updated to match the master branch at OpenStack Mistral. (improvement)
Update Python runner to throw a more user-friendly exception in case action metadata file references a script file which doesn’t exist or which contains invalid syntax. (improvement)
Update st2auth service so it includes more context and throws a more user-friendly exception when retrieving an auth backend instance fails. This makes it easier to debug and spot various auth backend issues related to typos, misconfiguration and similar. (improvement)
Let querier plugin decide whether to delete state object on error. Mistral querier will delete state object on workflow completion or when the workflow or task references no longer exists. (improvement)`

Removed

{{user.}} and {{system.}} notations to access user and system scoped items from datastore are now unsupported. Use {{st2kv.user.}} and {{st2kv.system.}} instead. Please update all your content (actions, rules and workflows) to use the new notation. (improvement)

Fixed

Fix returning a tuple from the Python runner so it also works correctly, even if action returns a complex type (e.g. Python class instance) as a result. (bug fix)

Reported by skjbulcher #3133
Fix a bug with packs.download action and as such as pack install command not working with git repositories which used a default branch which was not master. (bug fix)
Fix a bug with not being able to apply some global permission types (permissions which are global and not specific to a resource) such as pack install, pack remove, pack search, etc. to a role using st2-apply-rbac-definitions. (bug fix)
Fix /v1/packs/views/files/<pack ref or id> and /v1/packs/views/file/<pack ref or id>/<file path> API endpoint so it works correctly for packs where pack name is not equal to the pack ref. (bug fix)

Reported by skjbulcher #3128
Improve binary file detection and fix “pack files” API controller so it works correctly for new-style packs which are also git repositories. (bug fix)
Fix cancellation specified in concurrency policies to cancel actions appropriately. Previously, mistral workflow is orphaned and left in a running state. (bug fix)
If a retry policy is defined, action executions under the context of a workflow will not be retried on timeout or failure. Previously, action execution will be retried but workflow is terminated. (bug fix)
Fix how mistral client and resource managers are being used in the mistral runner. Authentication has changed in the mistral client. Fix unit test accordingly. (bug fix)
Fix issue where passing a single integer member for an array parameter for an action would cause a type mismatch in the API (bug fix)
Fix --config-file st2 CLI argument not correctly expanding the provided path if the path contained a reference to the user home directory (~, e.g. ~/.st2/config.ini) (bug fix)
Fix action alias update API endpoint. (bug fix)
Fix a bug with --api-token / -t and other CLI option values not getting correctly propagated to all the API calls issued in the st2 pack install, st2 pack remove and st2 pack config commands. (bug fix)

2.1.1 - December 16, 2016

Added

core.http action now also supports HTTP basic auth and digest authentication by passing username and password parameter to the action. (new feature)
After running st2 pack install CLI command display which packs have been installed. (improvement)

Changed

Update /v1/packs/register API endpoint so it throws on failure (e.g. invalid pack or resource metadata). This way the default behavior is consistent with default st2ctl reload --register-all behavior. If user doesn’t want the API endpoint to fail on failure, they can pass "fail_on_failure": false attribute in the request payload. (improvement)
Throw a more user-friendly exception when registering packs (st2ctl reload) if pack ref / name is invalid. (improvement)
Update packs.load action to also register triggers by default. (improvement)

Fixed

Fix GET /v1/packs/<pack ref or id> API endpoint - make sure pack object is correctly returned when pack ref doesn’t match pack name. Previously, 404 not found was thrown. (bug fix)
Update local action runner so it supports and works with non-ascii (unicode) parameter keys and values. (bug fix)

Contribution by Hiroyasu OHYAMA. #3116
Update /v1/packs/register API endpoint so it registers resources in the correct order which is the same as order used in st2-register-content script. (bug fix)

2.1.0 - December 05, 2016

Added

New pack management:
- Add new stackstorm_version and system fields to the pack.yaml metadata file. Value of the first field can contain a specific StackStorm version with which the pack is designed to work with (e.g. >=1.6.0,<2.2.0 or >2.0.0). This field is checked when installing / registering a pack and installation is aborted if pack doesn’t support the currently running StackStorm version. Second field can contain an object with optional system / OS level dependencies. (new feature)
- Add new contributors field to the pack metadata file. This field can contain a list of people who have contributed to the pack. The format is Name <email>, e.g. Tomaz Muraus <tomaz@stackstorm.com> (new feature)
- Add support for default values and dynamic config values for nested config objects. (new feature, improvement)
- Add new st2-validate-pack-config tool for validating config file against a particular config schema file. (new-feature)
Add new POST /v1/actionalias/match API endpoint which allows users to perform ChatOps action alias matching server-side. This makes it easier to build and maintain StackStorm ChatOps clients / adapters for various protocols and mediums. Clients can now be very thin wrappers around this new API endpoint.

Also add two new corresponding CLI commands - st2 alias-execution match and st2 alias-execution execute. Contribution by Anthony Shaw. (new feature) #2895.
Adding ability to pass complex array types via CLI by first trying to seralize the array as JSON and then falling back to comma separated array.
Add new core.pause action. This action behaves like sleep and can be used inside the action chain or Mistral workflows where waiting / sleeping is desired before proceeding with a next task. Contribution by Paul Mulvihill. (new feature) #2933.
Allow user to supply multiple resource ids using ?id query parameter when filtering “get all” API endpoint result set (e.g. ?id=1,2,3,4). This allows for a better client and servers performance when user is polling and interested in multiple resources such as polling on multiple action executions. (improvement)
Add support for ssh config file for ParamikoSSHrunner. Now ssh_config_file_path can be set in st2 config and can be used to access remote hosts when use_ssh_config is set to True. However, to access remote hosts, action parameters like username and password/private_key, if provided with action, will have precedence over the config file entry for the host. #2941 #3032 #3058 [Eric Edgar] (improvement)

Changed

Improved pack validation - now when the packs are registered we check that:
- version attribute in the pack metadata file matches valid semver format (e.g 0.1.0, 2.0.0, etc.)
- email attribute (if specified) contains a valid email address. (improvement)
- Only valid word characters (a-z, 0-9 and _) used for action parameter names. Previously, due to bug in the code, any character was allowed.
If validation fails, pack registration will fail. If you have an existing action or pack definition which uses invalid characters, pack registration will fail. You must update your packs.
For consistency with new pack name validation changes, sample hello-st2 pack has been renamed to hello_st2.
Update packs.install action (pack install command) to only load resources from the packs which are being installed. Also update it and remove “restart sensor container” step from the install workflow. This step hasn’t been needed for a while now because sensor container dynamically reads a list of available sensors from the database and starts the sub processes. (improvement)
Improve API exception handling and make sure 400 status code is returned instead of 500 on mongoengine field validation error. (improvement)
Throw a more user-friendly exception if rendering a dynamic configuration value inside the config fails. (improvement)
Change st2api so that a full execution object is returned instead of an error message, when an API client requests cancellation of an execution that is already canceled
Speed up short-lived Python runner actions by up to 70%. This way done by re-organizing and re-factoring code to avoid expensive imports such as jsonschema, jinja2, kombu and mongoengine in the places where those imports are not actually needed and by various other optimizations. (improvement)
Improve performance of GET /executions/views/filters by creating additional indexes on executions collection
Upgrade various internal Python library dependencies to the latest stable versions (gunicorn, kombu, six, appscheduler, passlib, python-gnupg, semver, paramiko, python-keyczar, virtualenv).

Removed

Remove packs.info action because .gitinfo file has been deprecated with the new pack management approach. Now pack directories are actual checkouts of the corresponding pack git repositories so this file is not needed anymore.

Fixed

Fix packs.uninstall action so it also deletes configs and policies which belong to
the pack which is being uninstalled. (bug fix)
When a policy cancels a request due to concurrency, it leaves end_timestamp set to None which the notifier expects to be a date. This causes an exception in “isotime.format()”. A patch was released that catches this exception, and populates payload[‘end_timestamp’] with the equivalent of “datetime.now()” when the exception occurs.
Adding check for datastore Client expired tokens used in sensor container
Fix python action runner actions and make sure that modules from st2common/st2common/runners directory don’t pollute PYTHONPATH for python runner actions. (bug fix)

2.0.1 - September 30, 2016

Added

Allow users to specify sort order when listing traces using the API endpoint by specifying ?sort_desc=True|False query parameters and by passing --sort=asc|desc parameter to the st2 trace list CLI command. (improvement)
Retry connecting to RabbitMQ on services start-up if connecting fails because of an intermediate network error or similar. (improvements)
Allow jinja expressions {{st2kv.system.foo}} and {{st2kv.user.foo}} to access datastore items from workflows, actions and rules. This is in addition to supporting expressions {{system.foo}} and {{user.foo}}.

Changed

Update traces list API endpoint and st2 trace list so the traces are sorted by start_timestamp in descending order by default. This way it’s consistent with executions list and -n CLI parameter works as expected. (improvement)

Deprecated

In subsequent releases, the expressions {{system.}} and {{user.}} for accessing datastore items will be deprecated. It is recommended to switch to using {{st2kv.system.}} and {{st2kv.user.}} for your content. (improvement)

Fixed

Fix st2 execution get command so now --attr argument correctly works with child properties of the result and trigger_instance dictionary (e.g. --attr result.stdout result.stderr). (bug fix)
Fix a bug with action default parameter values not supporting Jinja template notation for parameters of type object. (bug fix, improvement)
Fix --user / -u argument in the st2 key delete CLI command.

2.0.0 - August 31, 2016

Added

Implement custom Jinja filter functions to_json_string, to_yaml_string, to_human_time_from_seconds that can be used in actions and workflows. (improvement)
Default chatops message to include time taken to complete an execution. This uses to_human_time_from_seconds function. (improvement)
Allow user to cancel multiple executions using a single invocation of st2 execution cancel command by passing multiple ids to the command - st2 execution cancel <id 1> <id 2> <id n> (improvement)
We now execute –register-rules as part of st2ctl reload. PR raised by Vaishali: https://github.com/StackStorm/st2/issues/2861#issuecomment-239275641
Update packs.uninstall command to print a warning message if any rules in the system reference a trigger from a pack which is being uninstalled. (improvement)
Allow user to list and view rules using the API even if a rule in the database references a non-existent trigger. This shouldn’t happen during normal usage of StackStorm, but it makes it easier for the user to clean up in case database ends up in a inconsistent state. (improvement)

Changed

Refactor Jinja filter functions into appropriate modules. (improvement)
Bump default timeout for packs.load command from 60 to 100 seconds. (improvement)
Upgrade pip and virtualenv libraries used by StackStorm pack virtual environments to the latest versions (8.1.2 and 15.0.3).
Change Python runner action and sensor Python module loading so the module is still loaded even if the module name clashes with another module which is already in PYTHONPATH (improvement)

Fixed

Fix a bug when jinja templates with filters (for example, st2 run core.local cmd='echo {{"1.6.0" | version_bump_minor}}') in parameters wasn’t rendered correctly when executing actions. (bug-fix)
Fix validation of the action parameter type attribute provided in the YAML metadata. Previously we allowed any string value, now only valid types (object, string, number, integer, array, null) are allowed. (bug fix)
Fix disabling and enabling of a sensor through an API and CLI. (bug-fix)
Fix HTTP runner so it works correctly when body is provided with newer versions of requests library (>= 2.11.0). (bug-fix) #2880

Contribution by Shu Sugimoto.

1.6.0 - August 8, 2016

Added

Allow user to specify an action which is performed on an execution (delay, cancel) when a concurrency policy is used and a defined threshold is reached. For backward compatibility, delay is the default behavior, but now users can also specify cancel and an execution will be canceled instead of delayed when a threshold is reached.
Add support for sorting execution list results, allowing access to oldest items. (improvement)
Allow administrator to configure maximum limit which can be specified using ?limit query parameters when making API calls to get all / list endpoints. For backward compatibility and safety reasons, the default value still is 100. (improvement)
Include a chatops alias sample in examples pack that shows how to use format option to display chatops messages in custom formatted way. (improvement)
Include a field elapsed_seconds in execution API response for GET calls. The clients using the API can now use elapsed_seconds without having to repeat computation. (improvement)
Implement custom YAQL function st2kv in Mistral to get key-value pair from StackStorm’s datastore. (new-feature)

Changed

Upgrade to pymongo 3.2.2 and mongoengine 0.10.6 so StackStorm now also supports and works with MongoDB 3.x. (improvement)
Update action runner to use two internal green thread pools - one for regular (non-workflow) and one for workflow actions. Both pool sizes are user-configurable. This should help increase the throughput of a single action runner when the system is not over-utilized. It can also help prevent deadlocks which may occur when using delay policies with action-chain workflows. (improvement)
Update CLI commands to make sure that all of them support --api-key option. (bug-fix)
Update st2-register-content script to exit with non-zero on failure (e.g. invalid resource metadata, etc.) by default. For backward compatibility reasons, --register-fail-on-failure flag was left there, but it now doesn’t do anything since this is the default behavior. For ease of migrations, users can revert to the old behavior by using new --register-no-fail-on-failure flag. (improvement)
Allow Python runner actions to return execution status (success, failure) by returning a tuple from the run() method. First item in the tuple is a flag indicating success (True / False) and the second one is the result. Previously, user could only cause action to fail by throwing an exception or exiting which didn’t allow for a result to be returned. With this new approach, user can now also return an optional result with a failure. (new feature)
Include testing for chatops format_execution_result python action. The tests cover various action types. (improvement)
Update st2-register-content script so it validates new style configs in /opt/stackstorm/configs/ directory when using --register-configs flag if a pack contains a config schema (config.schema.yaml). (improvement)

Fixed

Make sure policies which are disabled are not applied. (bug fix) Reported by Brian Martin.
Fix Internal Server Error when an undefined jinja variable is used in action alias ack field. We now send a http status code 201 but also explicitly say we couldn’t render the ack field. The ack is anyways a nice-to-have message which is not critical. Previously, we still kicked off the execution but sent out Internal Server Error which might confuse the user whether execution was kicked off or not. (bug-fix)

1.5.1 - July 13, 2016

Added

Add support for default values when a new pack configuration is used. Now if a default value is specified for a required config item in the config schema and a value for that item is not provided in the config, default value from config schema is used. (improvement)
Add support for posixGroup to the enterprise LDAP auth backend. (improvement, bug-fix)

Changed

Allow user to prevent execution parameter merging when re-running an execution by passing ?no_merge=true query parameter to the execution re-run API endpoint. (improvement)

Fixed

Fix trigger registration when using st2-register-content script with --register-triggers flag. (bug-fix)
Fix an issue with CronTimer sometimes not firing due to TriggerInstance creation failure. (bug-fix) Reported by Cody A. Ray

1.5.0 - June 24, 2016

Added

TriggerInstances now have statuses to help track if a TriggerInstance has been processed, is being processed or failed to process. This bring out some visibility into parts of the TriggerInstance processing pipeline and can help identify missed events. (new-feature)
Allow user to enable service debug mode by setting system.debug config file option to True. Note: This is an alternative to the existing --debug CLI flag which comes handy when running API services under gunicorn. (improvement)
Add new API endpoint and corresponding CLI commands (st2 runner disable <name>, st2 runner enable <name>) which allows administrator to disable (and re-enable) a runner. (new feature)
Add RBAC support for runner types API endpoints. (improvement)
Add get_fixture_content method to all the base pack resource test classes. This method enforces fixture files location and allows user to load raw fixture content from a file on disk. (new feature) future, pack configs will be validated against the schema (if available). (new feature)
Add data model and API changes for supporting user scoped variables. (new-feature, experimental)
Add -y / --yaml flag to the CLI list and get commands. If this flag is provided, command response will be formatted as YAML. (new feature)
Ability to migrate api keys to new installs. (new feature)
Introduce a new concept of pack config schemas. Each pack can now contain a config.schema.yaml file. This file can contain an optional schema for the pack config. Site-specific pack configuration is then stored outside the pack directory, in /opt/stackstorm/configs/<pack name>.yaml. Those files are similar to the existing pack configs, but in addition to the static values they can also contain dynamic values. Dynamic value is a value which contains a Jinja expression which is resolved to a datastore item during run-time. (new feature)
Allow administrator user whose context will be used when running an action or re-running an action execution. (new feature)
Store action execution state transitions (event log) in the log attribute on the ActionExecution object. (new feature)
Admins will now be able pass --show-secrets when listing api keys to get the key_hash un-masked on the CLI. (new-feature)
Add --register-triggers flag to the st2-register-content script and st2ctl. When this flag is provided, all triggers contained within a pack triggers directory are registered, consistent with the behavior of sensors, actions, etc. This feature allows users to register trigger types outside the scope of the sensors. (new-feature) [Cody A. Ray]

Changed

Lazily establish SFTP connection inside the remote runner when and if SFTP connection is needed. This way, remote runner should now also work under cygwin on Windows if SFTP related functionality (file upload, directory upload, etc.) is not used. (improvement) Reported by Cody A. Ray
API and CLI allow rules to be filtered by their enable state. (improvement)
Send out a clear error message when SSH private key is passphrase protected but user fails to supply passphrase with private_key when running a remote SSH action. (improvement)

Removed

Remove now deprecated Fabric based remote runner and corresponding ssh_runner.use_paramiko_ssh_runner config option. (cleanup)
Remove support for JSON format for resource metadata files. YAML was introduced and support for JSON has been deprecated in StackStorm v0.6. Now the only supported metadata file format is YAML.

Fixed

Fix for data` is dropped if ``message is not present in notification. (bug-fix)
Fix support for password protected private key files in the remote runner. (bug-fix)
Allow user to provide a path to the private SSH key file for the remote runner private_key parameter. Previously only raw key material was supported. (improvement)
Allow register-setup-virtualenvs flag to be used in combination with register-all in the st2-register-content script.
Add missing pytz dependency to st2client requirements file. (bug-fix)
Fix datastore access on Python runner actions (set ST2_AUTH_TOKEN and ST2_API_URL env variables in Python runner actions to match sensors). (bug-fix)
Alias names are now correctly scoped to a pack. This means the same name for alias can be used across different packs. (bug-fix)
Fix a regression in filtering rules by pack with CLI. (bug-fix)
Make sure st2-submit-debug-info cleans up after itself and deletes a temporary directory it creates. (improvement) #2714 [Kale Blankenship]
Fix string parameter casting - leave actual None value as-is and don’t try to cast it to a string which would fail. (bug-fix, improvement)
Add a work-around for trigger creation which would case rule creation for CronTrigger to fail under some circumstances. (workaround, bug-fix)
Make sure -a all / --attr=all flag works for st2 execution list command (bug-fix)
Fix SSH bastion host support by ensuring the bastion parameter is passed to the paramiko ssh client. (bug-fix) #2543 [Adam Mielke]

Security

SSL support for mongodb connections. (improvement)

1.4.0 - April 18, 2016

Added

Passphrase support for the SSH runner. (improvement)
Add extra field to the ActionAlias schema for adapter-specific parameters. (improvement)
Allow user to pass a boolean value for the cacert st2client constructor argument. This way it now mimics the behavior of the verify argument of the requests.request method. (improvement)
Add datastore access to Python runner actions via the action_service which is available to all the Python runner actions after instantiation. (new-feature) #2396 #2511 [Kale Blankenship]
Update st2actions.runners.pythonrunner.Action class so the constructor also takes action_service as the second argument.
Display number of seconds which have elapsed for all the executions which have completed when using st2 execution get CLI command. (improvement)
Display number of seconds elapsed for all the child tasks of a workflow action when using st2 execution get CLI command. (improvement)
Various improvements in the linux.wait_for_ssh action:
- Support for password based authentication.
- Support for non-RSA SSH keys.
- Support for providing a non-default (22) SSH server port.
- Support for using default system user (stanley) ssh key if neither password nor keyfile parameter is provided.
Support for leading and trailing slashes in the webhook urls. (improvement)
Introduce new matchwildcard rule criteria operator. This operator provides supports for Unix shell-style wildcards (*, ?). (new feature)
Allow user to pass verbose parameter to linux.rm action. For backward compatibility reasons it defaults to true. (improvement)
Add --output and --existing-file options to st2-submit-debug-info. [Kale Blankenship]
Allow user to specify a timezone in the CLI client config (~/.st2/config). If the timezone is specified, all the timestamps displayed by the CLI will be shown in the configured timezone instead of a default UTC display. (new feature)
Add attachments parameter to the core.sendmail action. (improvement) [Cody A. Ray]
Add --register-setup-virtualenvs flag to the register-content script and st2ctl. When this flag is provided, Python virtual environments are created for all the registered packs. This option is to be used with distributed setup where action runner services run on multiple hosts to ensure virtual environments exist on all those hosts. (new-feature)
Update core.st2.CronTimer so it supports more of the cron-like expressions (a-b, */a, x,y,z, etc.). (improvement)
Add new regex and iregex rule criteria operator and deprecate matchregex in favor of those two new operators. (new-feature) [Jamie Evans]
Add support for better serialization of the following parameter types for positional parameters used in the local and remote script runner actions: integer, float, boolean, list, object. Previously those values were serialized as Python literals which made parsing them in the shell scripts very cumbersome. Now they are serialized based on the simple rules described in the documentation which makes it easy to use just by using simple shell primitives such as if statements and IFS for lists. (improvement, new feature)
Add -v flag (verbose mode) to the st2-run-pack-tests script. (improvement)
Add support for additional SSH key exchange algorithms to the remote runner via upgrade to paramiko 1.16.0. (new feature)
Add initial code framework for writing unit tests for action aliases. For the usage, please refer to the “Pack Testing” documentation section. (new feature)
Add custom use_none Jinja template filter which can be used inside rules when invoking an action. This filter ensures that None values are correctly serialized and is to be used when TriggerInstance payload value can be None and None is also a valid value for a particular action parameter. (improvement, workaround)

Changed

Improvements to ChatOps deployments of packs via pack deploy [Jon Middleton]
Allow /v1/webhooks API endpoint request body to either be JSON or url encoded form data. Request body type is determined and parsed accordingly based on the value of Content-Type header. Note: For backward compatibility reasons we default to JSON if Content-Type header is not provided. #2473 [David Pitman]
Update matchregex rule criteria operator so it uses “dot all” mode where dot (.) character will match any character including new lines. Previously * didn’t match new lines. (improvement)
Move stream functionality from st2api into a new standalone st2stream service. Similar to st2api and st2auth, stream is now a standalone service and WSGI app. (improvement)
Record failures to enforce rules due to missing actions or parameter validation errors. A RuleEnforcement object will be created for failed enforcements that do not lead to an ActionExecution creation. (improvement)
The list of required and optional configuration arguments for the LDAP auth backend has changed. The LDAP auth backend supports other login name such as sAMAccountName. This requires a separate service account for the LDAP backend to query for the DN related to the login name for bind to validate the user password. Also, users must be in one or more groups specified in group_dns to be granted access.
For consistency rename deploy_pack alias to pack_deploy.

Deprecated

Drop deprecated and unused system.admin_users config option which has been replaced with RBAC.
The matchregex rule criteria operator has been deprecated in favor of regex and iregex.
Mistral has deprecated the use of task name (i.e. $.task1) to reference task result. It is replaced with a task function that returns attributes of the task such as id, state, result, and additional information (i.e. task(task1).result).

Fixed

Bug fixes to allow Sensors to have their own log files. #2487 [Andrew Regan]
Make sure that the filename, module, funcName and lineno attributes which are available in the log formatter string contain the correct values. (bug-fix)

Reported by Andrew Regan.
Make sure that sensor container child processes take into account --use-debugger flag passed to the sensor container. This fixes support for remote debugging for sensor processes. (bug-fix)
Fix linux.traceroute action. (bug fix)
Fix a bug with positional argument handling in the local script runner. Now the arguments with a no value or value of None are correctly passed to the script. (bug fix)
Fix rule criteria comparison and make sure that false criteria pattern values such as integer 0 are handled correctly. (bug-fix)

Reported by Igor Cherkaev.
Fix alias executions API endpoint and make sure an exception is thrown if the user provided command string doesn’t match the provided format string. Previously, a non-match was silently ignored. (bug fix)

1.3.2 - February 12, 2016

Removed

Remove get_open_ports action from Linux pack.

1.3.1 - January 25, 2016

Changed

Dev environment by default now uses gunicorn to spin API and AUTH processes. (improvement)
Allow user to pass a boolean value for the cacert st2client constructor argument. This way it now mimics the behavior of the verify argument of the requests.request method. (improvement)

Fixed

Make sure setup.py of st2client package doesn’t rely on functionality which is only available in newer versions of pip.
Fix an issue where trigger watcher cannot get messages from queue if multiple API processes are spun up. Now each trigger watcher gets its own queue and therefore there are no locking issues. (bug-fix)

1.3.0 - January 22, 2016

Added

Allow user to pass env parameter to packs.setup_virtualenv and packs.install action.

This comes in handy if a user wants pip to use an HTTP(s) proxy (HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY environment variable) when installing pack dependencies. (new feature)
Ability to view causation chains in Trace. This helps reduce the noise when using Trace to identify specific issues. (new-feature)
Filter Trace components by model types to only view ActionExecutions, Rules or TriggerInstances. (new-feature)
Include ref of the most meaningful object in each trace component. (new-feature)
Ability to hide trigger-instance that do not yield a rule enforcement. (new-feature)
Action and Trigger filters for rule list (new-feature)
Add --register-fail-on-failure flag to st2-register-content script. If this flag is provided, the script will fail and exit with non-zero status code if registering some resource fails. (new feature)
Introduce a new abandoned state that is applied to executions that we cannot guarantee as completed. Typically happen when an actionrunner currently running some executions quits or is killed via TERM.
Add new st2garbagecollector service which periodically deletes old data from the database as configured in the config. By default, no old data is deleted unless explicitly configured in the config.
All published variables can be available in the result of ActionChain execution under the published property if display_published property is specified.
Allow user to specify TTL when creating datastore item using CLI with the --ttl option. (improvement)
Add option to rerun one or more tasks in mistral workflow that has errored. (new-feature)

Changed

Change the rule list columns in the CLI from ref, pack, description and enabled to ref, trigger.ref, action.ref and enabled. This aligns closer the UI and also brings important information front and center. (improvement)
Support for object already present in the DB for st2-rule-tester (improvement)
Throw a more friendly error message if casting parameter value fails because the value contains an invalid type or similar. (improvement)
Display execution parameters when using st2 execution get <execution id> CLI command for workflow executions. (improvement)
The --tasks option in the CLI for st2 execution get and st2 run will be renamed to --show-tasks to avoid conflict with the tasks option in st2 execution re-run.
Replace chatops.format_result with chatops.format_execution_result and remove dependency on st2 pack from st2contrib.
Trace also maintains causation chain through workflows.

Deprecated

Deprecated params action attribute in the action chain definition in favor of the new parameters attribute. (improvement)

Fixed

Add missing logrotate config entry for st2auth service. #2294 [Vignesh Terafast]
Add a missing get_logger method to the MockSensorService`. This method now returns an instance of Mock class which allows user to assert that a particular message has been logged. [Tim Ireland, Tomaz Muraus]
Fix validation error when None is passed explicitly to an optional argument on action execution. (bug fix)
Fix action parameters validation so that only a selected set of attributes can be overriden for any runner parameters. (bug fix)
Fix type in the headers parameter for the http-request runner. (bug fix)
Fix runaway action triggers caused by state miscalculation for mistral workflow. (bug fix)
Use --always-copy option when creating virtualenv for packs from packs.setup_virtualenv action. This is required when st2actionrunner is kicked off from python within a virtualenv.
Fix a bug in the remote script runner which would throw an exception if a remote script action caused a top level failure (e.g. copying artifacts to a remote host failed). (bug-fix)
Fix execution cancellation for task of mistral workflow. (bug fix)
Fix runaway action triggers caused by state miscalculation for mistral workflow. (bug fix)
Fix a bug when removing notify section from an action meta and registering it never removed the notify section from the db. (bug fix)
Make sure action specific short lived authentication token is deleted immediately when execution is cancelled. (improvement)
Ignore lock release errors which could occur while reopening log files. This error could simply indicate that the lock was never acquired.

1.2.0 - December 07, 2015

Added

Add SSH bastion host support to the paramiko SSH runner. Utilizes same connection parameters as the targeted box. (new feature, improvement) #2144, #2150 [Logan Attwood]
Introduce a new timeout action execution status which represents an action execution timeout. Previously, executions which timed out had status set to failure. Keep in mind that timeout is just a special type of a failure. (new feature)
Allow jinja templating to be used in message and data field for notifications.(new feature)
Add tools for purging executions (also, liveactions with it) and trigger instances older than certain UTC timestamp from the db in bulk.
Introducing noop runner and core.noop action. Returns consistent success in a WF regardless of user input. (new feature)
Add mock classes (st2tests.mocks.*) for easier unit testing of the packs. (new feature)
Add a script (./st2common/bin/st2-run-pack-tests) for running pack tests. (new feature)
Support for formatting of alias acknowledgement and result messages in AliasExecution. (new feature)
Support for “representation+value” format strings in aliases. (new feature)
Support for disabled result and acknowledgement messages in aliases. (new feature)
Add ability to write rule enforcement (models that represent a rule evaluation that resulted in an action execution) to db to help debugging rules easier. Also, CLI bindings to list and view these models are added. (new-feature)

Changed

Refactor retries in the Mistral action runner to use exponential backoff. Configuration options for Mistral have changed. (improvement)
Update action chain runner so it performs on-success and on-error task name validation during pre_run time. This way common errors such as typos in the task names can be spotted early on since there is no need to wait for the run time.
Change headers and params core.http action paramer type from string to object.
Don’t allow action parameter type attribute to be an array since rest of the code doesn’t support parameters with multiple types. (improvement)
Update local runner so all the commands which are executed as a different user and result in using sudo set $HOME variable to the home directory of the target user. (improvement)
Include state_info for Mistral workflow and tasks in the action execution result. (improvement)
--debug flag no longer implies profiling mode. If you want to enable profiling mode, you need to explicitly pass --profile flag to the binary. To reproduce the old behavior, simply pass both flags to the binary - --debug --profile.
Modify ActionAliasFormatParser to work with regular expressions and support more flexible parameter matching. (improvement)
Move ChatOps pack to st2 core.
Purge tool now uses delete_by_query and offloads delete to mongo and doesn’t perform app side explicit model deletion to improve speed. (improvement)

Fixed

Fix trigger parameters validation for system triggers during rule creation - make sure we validate the parameters before creating a TriggerDB object. (bug fix)
Fix a bug with a user inside the context of the live action which was created using alias execution endpoint incorrectly being set to the system user (stanley) instead of the authenticated user which triggered the execution. (bug fix)
Fix policy loading and registering - make sure we validate policy parameters against the parameters schema when loading / registering policies. (bug fix, improvement)
Fix policy trigger for action execution cancellation. (bug fix)
Improve error reporting for static error in ActionChain definition e.g. incorrect reference in default etc. (improvement)
Fix action chain so it doesn’t end up in an infinite loop if an action which is part of the chain is canceled. (bug fix)
Fix json representation of trace in cli. (bug fix)
Add missing indexes on trigger_instance_d_b collection. (bug fix)

1.1.1 - November 13, 2015

Added

Allow user to specify URL which Mistral uses to talk to StackStorm API using mistral.api_url configuration option. If this option is not provided it defaults to the old behavior of using the public API url (auth.api_url setting). (improvement)

Changed

Improve speed of st2 execution list command by not requesting result and trigger_instance attributes. The effect of this change will be especially pronounced for installations with a lot of large executions (large execution for this purpose is an execution with a large result).
Improve speed of st2 execution get command by not requesting result and trigger_instance attributes.
Now when running st2api service in debug mode (--debug) flag, all the JSON responses are pretty indented.
When using st2 execution list and st2 execution get CLI commands, display execution elapsed time in seconds for all the executions which are currently in “running” state.

Fixed

Fix a race condition in sensor container where a sensor which takes <= 5 seconds to shut down could be respawned before it exited. (bug fix) #2187 [Kale Blankenship]
Add missing entry for st2notifier service to the logrotate config. (bug fix)
Allow action parameter values with type object to contain special characters such as . and $ in the parameter value. (bug fix, improvement)

1.1.0 - October 27, 2015

Added

Add YAQL v1.0 support to Mistral. Earlier versions are deprecated. (improvement)
Move st2auth service authentication backends to a “repo per backend” model. Backends are now also dynamically discovered and registered which makes it possible to easily create and use custom backends. For backward compatibility reasons, flat_file backend is installed and available by default. (new feature, improvement)
New st2auth authentication backend for authenticating against LDAP servers - https://github.com/StackStorm/st2-auth-backend-ldap. (new feature)
Enable Mistral workflow cancellation via st2 execution cancel. (improvement)
Allow action-alias to be created and deleted from CLI.
Add support for --profile flag to all the services. When this flag is provided service runs in the profiling module which means all the MongoDB queries and query related profile data is logged. (new-feature)
Introduce API Keys that do not expire like Authentication tokens. This makes it easier to work with webhook based integrations. (new-feature)
Allow user to define trigger tags in sensor definition YAML files. (new feature) #2000 [Tom Deckers]
Update CLI so it supports caching tokens for different users (it creates a different file for each user). This means you can now use ST2_CONFIG_FILE option without disabling token cache. (improvement)
Add option to verify SSL cert for HTTPS request to the core.http action. (new feature)
Allow user to update / reinstall Python dependencies listed in requirements.txt inside the pack virtual environment by passing update=True parameter to packs.setup_virtualenv action or by using new packs.update_virtualenv action. (new feature) [jsjeannotte]
Pack on install are now assigned an owner group. The pack_group property allows to pick this value and default is st2packs. (new feature)

Changed

Update CLI so st2 run / st2 execution run and st2 execution re-run commands exit with non-zero code if the action fails. (improvement)
Default to rule being disabled if the user doesn’t explicitly specify enabled attribute when creating a rule via the API or inside the rule metadata file when registering local content (previously it defaulted to enabled).
Include parameters when viewing execution via the CLI. (improvement)
CLI renders parameters and output as yaml for better readability. (improvement)
Support versioned APIs for auth controller. For backward compatibility, unversioned API calls get redirected to versioned controllers by the server. (improvement)
Update remote runner to include stdout and stderr which was consumed so far when a timeout occurs. (improvement)
Reduce the wait time between message consumption by TriggerWatcher to avoid latency (improvement)
Allow user to specify value for the From field in the sendmail action by passing from parameter to the action. (improvement) [pixelrebel]

Deprecated

YAQL versions < 1.0 are deprecated.

Fixed

Fix timestamp_lt and timestamp_gt filtering in the /executions API endpoint. Now we return a correct result which is expected from a user-perspective. (bug-fix)
Make sure that alias execution endpoint returns a correct status code and error message if the referenced action doesn’t exist.
Allow user to select keystone backend in the st2auth service. (bug-fix)
Fix packs.info action so it correctly exits with a non-zero status code if the pack doesn’t exist or if it doesn’t contain a valid .gitinfo file. (bug-fix)
Fix packs.info action so it correctly searches all the packs base dirs. (bug-fix)
Fix a bug in stdout and stderr consumption in paramiko SSH runner where reading a fixed chunk byte array and decoding it could result in multi-byte UTF-8 character being read half way resulting in UTF-8 decode error. This happens only when output is greater than default chunk size (1024 bytes) and script produces utf-8 output. We now collect all the bytes from channel and only then decode the byte stream as utf-8.
Cleanup timers and webhook trigger definitions once all rules referencing them are removed. (bug-fix)
Enable pseudo tty when running remote SSH commands with the paramiko SSH runner. This is done to match existing Fabric behavior. (bug-fix)
Fix CLI so it skips automatic authentication if credentials are provided in the config on “auth” command. (bug fix)
Strip the last ‘r’ or ‘rn’ from both stdout and stderr streams from paramiko and local runner output. This is done to be compatible with fabric output of those streams. (bug-fix)
Set env variables (user provided and system assigned) before running remote command or script action with paramiko. (bug-fix)
Fix a bug in Paramiko SSH runner where cwd could just be accessed in sudo mode but cd was outside scope of sudo in the command generated. Now, cd is inside the scope of sudo. (bug-fix)
Fix a bug in Paramiko SSH runner where kwargs keys in script arguments were not shell injection safe. For example, kwarg key could contain spaces. (bug-fix)
Fix a bug in Paramiko SSH runner where JSON output in stdout or stderr wasn’t transformed to object automatically. (bug-fix)
Paramiko SSH runner no longer runs a remote command with sudo if local user and remote user differ. (bug-fix)
Fix a bug with the CLI token precedence - now the auth token specified as an environment variable or as a command line argument has precedence over credentials in the CLI config. (bug fix)
Fix st2-self-check script to check whether to use http/https when connecting to st2, to disable Windows test by default, and to check test status correctly. (bug-fix)
Use exclusive messaging Qs for TriggerWatcher to avoid having to deal with old messages and related migration scripts. (bug-fix)
Make sure sensor container child processes (sensor instance processes) are killed and cleaned up if the sensor container is forcefully terminated (SIGKILL). (bug fix, improvement)

0.13.2 - September 09, 2015

Changed

Last newline character (\n) is now stripped from stdout and stderr fields in local and remote command/shell runners. (improvement)
Make sure sensor processes correctly pick up parent --debug flag. This makes debugging a lot easier since user simply needs to start sensor container with --debug flag and all the sensor logs with level debug or higher will be routed to the container log. (improvement)

Fixed

private_key supplied for remote_actions is now used to auth correctly. The private_key argument should be the contents of private key file (of user specified in username argument). (bug-fix)
Fix sensor container service so the config argument is correctly passed to the sensor instances in the system packs. Previously, this argument didn’t get passed correctly to the FileWatchSensor from the system linux pack. (bug-fix)

0.13.1 - August 28, 2015

Fixed

cwd for paramiko script runner should use cwd provided as runner parameter. (bug-fix)
Fix timer regression; bring brack broken timers. (bug-fix)
Updates to trace objects are done via non-upsert updates by adding to the array. This makes it safer to update trace objects from multiple processes. (bug-fix)

0.13.0 - August 24, 2015

Added

Add new OpenStack Keystone authentication backend. [Itxaka Serrano]
Support for RabbitMQ cluster. StackStorm works with a RabbitMQ cluster and switches nodes on failover. (feature)
Introduce a Paramiko SSH runner that uses eventlets to run scripts or commands in parallel. (improvement) (experimental)
Add action parameters validation to Mistral workflow on invocation. (improvement)
Allow user to include files which are written on disk inside the action create API payload. (new feature)
Allow user to retrieve content of a file inside a pack by using the new /packs/views/files/ API endpoint. (new feature)
Add OpenStack Keystone authentication configuration for Mistral. (improvement)
Ability to add trace tag to TriggerInstance from Sensor. (feature)
Ability to view trace in CLI with list and get commands. (feature)
Add ability to add trace tag to st2 run CLI command. (feature)
Add ability to specify trace id in st2 run CLI command. (feature)
Add X-Request-ID header to all API calls for easier debugging. (improvement)
Add new CLI commands for disabling and enabling content pack resources ({sensor,action,rule} {enable, disable} <ref or id>) (feature)

Changed

Information about parent workflow is now a dict in child’s context field. (improvement)
Add support for restarting sensors which exit with a non-zero status code to the sensor container. Sensor container will now automatically try to restart (up to 2 times) sensor processes which die with a non-zero status code. (improvement)
Add index to the ActionExecution model to speed up query. (improvement)
Rename notification “channels” to “routes”. (improvement)
Turn on paramiko ssh runner as the default ssh runner in prod configuration. To switch to fabric runner, set use_paramiko_ssh_runner to false in st2.conf. (improvement)

Fixed

Fix a bug when some runner parameter default values were not overridden when a false value was used in the action metadata parameter override (e.g. False, 0). [Eugen C.]
Correctly return 404 if user requests an invalid path which partially maps to an existing path. (bug-fix)
Fix sort key in the ActionExecution API controller. (bug-fix)
Fix key name for error message in liveaction result. (bug-fix)
Fix 500 API response when rule with no pack info is supplied. (bug-fix)
Fix bug in trigger-instance re-emit (extra kwargs passed to manager is now handled). (bug-fix)
Make sure auth hook and middleware returns JSON and “Content-Type: application/json” header in every response. (improvement, bug-fix)
Fix bug in triggers emitted on key value pair changes and sensor spawn/exit. When dispatching those triggers, the reference used didn’t contain the pack names which meant it was invalid and lookups in the rules engine would fail. (bug-fix)
Handle sudo in paramiko remote script runner. (bug-fix)
Update st2ctl to correctly start st2web even if Mistral is not installed. (bug-fix, improvement)
Fix a bug in handling positional arguments with spaces. (bug-fix)
Make sure that the $PATH environment variable which is set for the sandboxed Python process contains <virtualenv path>/bin directory as the first entry. (bug fix)

0.12.2 - August 11, 2015

Added

Support local ssh config file in remote runners. (feature)

Changed

Changes to htpasswd file used in flat_file auth backend do not require a restart of st2auth and consequently StackStorm. (feature)

0.12.1 - July 31, 2015

Fixed

Un-registering a pack also removes rules and action aliases from the pack. (bug-fix)
Disable parallel SSH in fabric runner which causes issues with eventlets. (bug-fix)
Fix executions stuck in running state if runner container throws exception. (bug-fix)
Fix cases where liveaction result in dict are escaped and passed to Mistral. (bug-fix)

0.12.0 - July 20, 2015

Added

Add support for script arguments to the Windows script runner. (new feature) [James Sigurðarson]
Allow user to filter executions on trigger instance id. [Sayli Karmarkar]
By default the following environment variables are now available to the actions executed by local, remote and python runner: ST2_ACTION_API_URL, ST2_ACTION_AUTH_TOKEN. (new-feature)
Jinja filter to make working with regex and semver possible in any place that support jinja (improvement)
New experimental workflow runner based on the open-source CloudSlang project. (new-feature) [Eliya Sadan, Meir Wahnon, Sam Markowitz]
Allow user to specify new secret attribute (boolean) for each action parameters. Values of parameters which have this attribute set to true will be masked in the log files. (new-feature)
Support for masking secret parameters in the API responses. Secret parameters can only be viewed through the API by admin users. (new-feature)
six library is now available by default in the Python sandbox to all the newly installed packs. (improvement)
Dispatch an internal trigger when a datastore item has been created, updated, deleted and when it’s value has changed. (new-feature)
Add new /v1/packs API endpoint for listing installed packs. (new-feature)
Ability to partition sensors across sensor nodes using various partition schemes. (new-feature)
Add ability to use action context params as action params in meta. (new-feature)

Changed

Allow users to use timediff_lt and timediff_gt rule comparison operator with many string date formats - previously it only worked with ISO8601 date strings. (improvement)
API server now gracefully shuts down on SIGINT (CTRL-C). (improvement)
Single sensor mode of Sensor Container uses --sensor-ref instead of --sensor-name.
Move /exp/actionalias/ and /exp/aliasexecution to /v1/actionalias/ and /v1/aliasexecution/ respectively. (upgrade)
Display friendly message for error in parameters validation on action execution. (improvement)

Fixed

Fix a bug with with reinstalling a pack with no existing config - only try to move the config file over if it exists. (bug fix)
Fix a bug with st2 execution list CLI command throwing an exception on failed Mistral workflows. (bug-fix)
Fix a bug with st2 execution list CLI command not displaying end_timestamp attribute for Mistral workflows. (bug-fix)
Fix a bug in action container where rendering params was done twice. (bug-fix)

0.11.6 - July 2, 2015

Changed

Update all the code to handle all the datetime objects internally in UTC. (improvement, bug-fix)

0.11.5 - July 1, 2015

Fixed

Fix a bug where end_timestamp is not captured for Mistral workflow executions (bug-fix)
Fix a bug where the CLI failed to display Mistral workflow that errored (bug-fix)
Fix a bug where the published variables are not captured in the Mistral workflow result (bug-fix)

0.11.4 - June 30, 2015

Removed

Remove unnecessary rule notify_hubot from core.

0.11.3 - June 16, 2015

Fixed

Fix RHEL6 packaging issues

0.11.2 - June 12, 2015

Fixed

Fix a bug with start_timestamp and end_timestamp sometimes returning an invalid value in a local instead of UTC timezone. (bug-fix)
Fix to get PollingSensor working again. Sensors of type PollingSensor were not being treated as such and as a result would fail after the 1st poll. (bug-fix)

0.11.1 - June 8, 2015

Changed

Action aliases are registered by default. (improvement)

Fixed

Repair failing pack installation. (bug-fix)

0.11.0 - June 5, 2015

Added

Allow user to configure the CLI using an ini style config file located at ~/.st2rc. (new-feature)
Add support for caching of the retrieved auth tokens to the CLI. (new-feature)
Update CLI so it displays the error at the top level when using run, execution run or execution get when executed workflow fails. (improvement)
Add new API endpoint for re-running an execution (POST /executions/<id>/re_run/). (new-feature)
CLI now has get and list commands for triggerinstance. (new-feature)
CLI now has re-emit command for triggerinstance. (new-feature)

Changed

Throw a more-user friendly exception when enforcing a rule if an action referenced inside the rule definition doesn’t exist. (improvement)
Rules should be part of a pack. (improvement)
Update Windows runner code so it also works with a newer versions of winexe (> 1.0). (improvement) [James Sigurðarson]
Validate parameters during rule creation for system triggers. (improvement)

Fixed

Fix a bug with the rule evaluation failing if the trigger payload contained a key with a dot in the name. (bug-fix)
Fix a bug with publishing array (list) values as strings inside the action chain workflows. (bug-fix)
Action trigger now contains execution id as opposed to liveaction id. (bug-fix)

v0.9.2 - May 26, 2015

Fixed

Fix broken packs.download action. (bug-fix)

v0.9.1 - May 12, 2015

Added

Allow option to bypass SSL Certificate Check (improvement)

Changed

Return HTTP BAD REQUEST when TTL requested for token > Max configured TTL (improvement)

Fixed

Fix a bug with alias parser to support empty formats (bug-fix)

v0.9.0 - April 29, 2015

Added

Sensor container now can dynamically load/reload/unload sensors on data model changes. (new-feature)
Add -t / --only-token flag to the st2 auth command. (new-feature)
Add ability to best-effort cancel actions and actionchain via API. (new-feature)
Add new windows-cmd and windows-script runners for executing commands and PowerShell scripts on Windows hosts. (new-feature)
Update all the Python services to re-open log files on the SIGUSR1 signal. (new-feature)

Changed

Report a more user-friendly error if an action-chain task references an invalid or inexistent action. Also treat invalid / inexistent action as a top-level action-chain error. (improvement)
Report a more user-friendly error if an action-chain definition contains an invalid type. (improvement)
Rename all st2 processes to be prefixed by st2. (sensor_container is now st2sensorcontainer, rules_engine is now st2rulesengine, actionrunner is now st2actionrunner) (improvement)
Return a user friendly error on no sensors found or typo in sensor class name in single sensor mode. (improvement)
Check if internal trigger types are already registered before registering them again. (improvement)
Update runner names so they follow a consistent naming pattern. For backward compatibility reasons, runners can still be referenced using their old names. (improvement)

Fixed

Sensor container now returns non-zero exit codes for errors. (bug-fix)
Fix a bug in datastore operations exposed in st2client. (bug-fix)
Catch exception if rule operator functions throw excepton and ignore the rule. (bug-fix)
Remove expected “runnertype not found” error logs on action registration in clean db. (improvement)
Clean up rule registrar logging. (improvement)
register param in packs.install should be passed to packs.load. (bug-fix)
Fix validation code to validate value types correctly. (bug-fix)
Internal trigger types registered using APIs should use auth token. (bug-fix)

Security

Enable authentication by default for package based installations.

v0.8.3 - March 23, 2015

Changed

Don’t allow run-remote-script actions without an entry_point attribute - throw an exception when running an action. (improvement)

Fixed

Fix packs.setup_virtualenv command so it works correctly if user has specified multiple packs search paths. (bug-fix)
Update sensor container to use auth.api_url setting when talking to the API (e.g. when accessing a datastore, etc.). This way it also works correctly if sensor container is running on a different host than the API. (bug-fix)

v0.8.2 - March 10, 2015

Fixed

Fix a bug with python-runner actions sometimes not correctly reporting the action’s stdout. (bug-fix)
Fix a bug in the run-remote-script runner - the runner ignored environment variables and authentication settings which were supplied to the action as parameters. (bug-fix)

v0.8.1 - March 10, 2015

Added

Allow user to exclude particular attributes from a response by passing ?exclude_attributes=result,trigger_instance query parameter to the /actionexecutions/ and /actionexecutions/<execution id>/ endpoint (new-feature)
Add new /actionexecutions/<id>/attribute/<attribute name> endpoint which allows user to retrieve a value of a particular action execution attribute. (new-feature)

Changed

Update execution get CLI command so it automatically detects workflows and returns more user-friendly output by default. (improvement)
Update run, action execute, execution get and execution re-run CLI commands to take the same options and return output in the same consistent format.
Throw a more friendly error in the action chain runner if it fails to parse the action chain definition file. (improvement)

Fixed

Fix a bug with http runner not parsing JSON HTTP response body if the content-type header also contained a charset. (bug-fix)
Indent workflow children properly in CLI (bug-fix)
Make sure that wait indicator is visible in CLI on some systems where stdout is buffered. (bug-fix)
Fix a bug with end_timestamp attribute on the LiveAction and ActionExecution model containing an invalid value if the action hasn’t finished yet. (bug-fix)
Correctly report an invalid authentication information error in the remote runner. (bug-fix)
Fix a bug in the action chain runner and make sure action parameters are also available for substitution in the publish scope. (bug-fix)

v0.8.0 - March 2, 2015

Added

Allow user to specify current working directory (cwd parameter) when running actions using the local or the remote runner (run-local, run-local-script, run-remote, run-remote-script). (new-feature)
Default values of the parameter of an Action can be system values stored in kv-store. (new-feature)
Allow users to specify additional paths where StackStorm looks for integration packs using packs_base_paths setting. (new-feature)
Allow user to specify which Python binary to use for the Python runner actions using actionrunner.python_binary setting (new-feature)
Default Python binary which is used by Python runner actions to be the Python binary which is used by the action runner service. Previous, system’s default Python binary was used.
Vars can be defined in the ActionChain. (new-feature)
Node in an ActionChain can publish global variables. (new-feature)
Allow user to provide authentication token either inside headers (X-Auth-Token) or via x-auth-token query string parameter. (new-feature)
Allow user to override authentication information (username, password, private key) on per action basis for all the remote runner actions. (new-feature)
Allow user to pass --inherit-env flag to the st2 action run command which causes all the environment variables accessible to the CLI to be sent as env parameter to the action being executed. (new-feature)
Cast params of an execution before scheduling in the RulesEngine. This allows non-string parameters in an action. (new-feature)
CLI commands to return non-zero exit codes for failed operations (new-feature)
Add new nequals (neq) rule criteria operator. This criteria operator performs not equals check on values of an arbitrary type. (new-feature)
Add new execution re-run <execution id> CLI command for re-running an existing action. (new-feature)
Dispatch an internal trigger when a sensor process is spawned / started (st2.sensor.process_spawn) and when a process exits / is stopped (st2.sensor.process_exit). (new-feature)
Update HTTP runner to automatically parse JSON response body if Content-Type is application/json (new-feature)
Support for filtering by timestamp and status in executions list. (new-feature)
Ability to see child tasks of any execution. (new-feature)
Allow sensors to manage global datastore items via sensor_service by passing local=False argument to the get_value, set_value and delete_value methods. (new-feature)
Allow sensors to list datastore items using list_values sensor_service method. (new-feature)
Allow users to filter datastore items by name prefix by passing ?prefix=<value> query parameter to the /keys endpoint. (new-feature)

Changed

Rename ActionExecution to LiveAction. (refactor)
Rename ActionExecutionHistory to ActionExecution. (refactor)
POST to /v1/executions take LiveActionAPI but returns ActionExecutionAPI (refactor)
Execution list shows only top level executions by default to see full list use –showall. (refactor)

Removed

A separate history process is no longer required. ActionExecution updates are carried at time of update to LiveAction. (refactor)

Deprecated

API url /v1/actionexecutions/ is now deprecated in favor of /v1/executions/ (refactor)
API url change /v1/history/execution to /v1/executions (refactor)
API url change /v1/history/execution/views/filters to /v1/executions/views/filters (refactor)

Fixed

Fix a race-condition / bug which would occur when multiple packs are installed at the same time. (bug-fix)
Allow actions without parameters. (bug-fix)
Fix a bug with rule matching not working for any triggers with parameters. (bug-fix)
Require cmd parameter for the following actions: core.remote, core.remote_sudo, core.local, core.local_sudo (bug-fix)
Use QuerySet.count() instead of len(QuerySet) to avoid the caching of the entire result which improve running time of API request. (bug-fix)
Fix a bug with template rendering, under some conditions, ending in an infinite loop. (bug-fix)
Mistral subworkflows kicked off in st2 should include task name. (bug-fix)
Fix non-string types to be rendered correctly in action parameters when used in rule. (bug-fix)
Allow user to specify default value for required attributes in the definition of action parameters. (bug-fix)
When running with auth enabled, correctly preserve the username of the authenticated user who has triggered the action execution. (bug-fix)

v0.7 - January 16, 2015

Added

Python runner and all the fabric based runners (run-local, run-local-script, run-remote, run-remote-script) now expose the timeout argument. With this argument users can specify action timeout. Previously, the action timeout was not user-configurable and a system-wide default value was used.
The time when an action execution has finished is now recorded and available via the end_timestamp attribute on the ActionExecution model.
Allow polling sensors to retrieve current poll interval and change it using get_poll_interval and set_poll_interval methods respectively. (new-feature)
Add support for a standalone mode to the st2auth service. In the standalone mode, authentication is handled inside the st2auth service using the defined backend. (new feature)
Add new rule criteria comparison operators: iequals, contains, icontains, ncontains, incontains, startswith, istartswith, endswith, iendswith, exists, nexists (new-feature)
Allow sensors to store temporary data in the datastore using the get_value, set_value and delete_value methods exposed by sensor_service. (new-feature)
Allow user to specify TTL for datastore values by sending ttl attribute in the body of a PUT /keys/<key id> request. (new feature)
Add new key delete_by_prefix --prefix=<prefix> client command. This command allows deletion of all the keys with names starting with the provided prefix. (new-feature)
Add ability to attach tags to Action, Rule and TriggerType.
Add ability to query results asynchronously from external services. (new-feature)
Add rule_tester tool which allows users to test rules in an offline mode without any services running (new-feature)

Changed

Refactor local runners so they are more robust, efficient and easier to debug. Previously, local actions were executed through SSH, now they are executed directly without the overhead of SSH.
Timer is not a sensor anymore. It is launched as part of the rules_engine process (refactor)
Action models now use ContentPackResourceMixin so we can get them by ref. (refactor)
st2api only requires st2common and dependencies defined in requirements.txt to be available on the pythonpath thus making it possible to run st2api standalone.
Change default mode for authentication to standalone. (refactor)

Fixed

Status code 400 (bad request) is now returned if user doesn’t provide a body to API endpoints which require it. Previously 500 internal server error was returned (bug-fix).
Fix local runner so it correctly executes a command under the provided system user if user parameter is provided. (bug-fix)
Fix a bug with a Trigger database object in some cases being created twice when registering a rule. (bug-fix)
Fix a bug with child processes which run sensor code not being killed when stopping a sensor container service. (bug-fix)
Fix a bug and allow user to use non-ascii (unicode) values in the parameter substitution values. (bug-fix)
Fix a bug with action registration where actions with invalid schema for parameters get registered. (bug-fix)
Fix a bug with default param values inheritance in runner/actions. (bug-fix)
Fix a bug where trigger objects weren’t created for triggers with different parameters. (bug-fix)

v0.6.0 - December 8, 2014

Added

Add Sensor and PollingSensor base classes. (NB: Sensors API change is non-backward compatible.)
YAML support for action, rules and chain meta.
Add sensor meta support (JSON/YAML) to specify trigger types.
Audit log messages are now saved in a structured format as JSON in st2actionrunner.{pid}.audit.log log file.

Changed

Separate virtualenv per pack. (Pythonic sensors and actions use them by default.)
Install pip requirements from requirements.txt in packs by default.
Sensors are now run in their own process for isolation.
Python Actions are now run in their own process for isolation.
Separate out rules_engine into own process.
Packs default path moves from /opt/stackstorm to /opt/stackstorm/packs/.
Webhooks are not part of a sensor. They are now part of core API. (Authentication may be required.)
API URLs are now versioned. All the existing paths have been prefixed with /v1 (e.g. /v1/actions).